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j3cRIPTUF(E ^EyVD jSpiF^ITUyUJ-Y. 

In the Congregalionalist of May 25th is a notice 
of " Scripture Read Spiritually," which closes with 
the following sentence: "Mr. Fowler means well." 
That the reader may know what the meaning is, the 
following statement is made: 

1. That man was or is made (it takes the first 
Adam and the second Adam to make a man, as the 
Scriptures read spiritually mean) to manifest the 
attributes of the Creator or God. 

2. To such man or men God gives the liberty, 
wisdom and power to rule the world, seen and 
unseen, or the world of matter and mind, as they 
exist in body, soul and spirit. 

3. That revelation was or is given to man that 
he might be able to fulfill all righteousness. 

4. The Bible was made for man, and not man 
for the Bible. 

5. Adam's transgression was adding evil to the 
good in which the Creator left him. 

6. Evil may be nothing more than suffering to 
obtain a good that could not be obtained without, as 
in the case of mothers bearing children. 

7. That evil continued and practiced for its fun 
or gratification, or regardless of the good of others, 
brings a consequence which is punishment, as in the 
case of Cain. 

8. The true believer in the second Adam, in his 
suffering as a consequence, endures it joyfully, and 
is made partaker of the nature and character of the 
holy child Je^us. 

JOSIAH FOWLER. 
CASTALIA, Erie County, 0., May 30, 1881. 



AN ANALYSIS 

—OF— 

TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE, 

THE BETTEE TO UNDERSTAND 

The True Fact, or Spiritual Meaning, that the Reve* 
lator Intended to convey to the Reader by means of the 
Letter. 

-■By 

JOSIAH FOWLER. 




" The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life."— Paul. 

2 Corinthians 2-6. 

"My words that I speak unto you they are spirit and 
they are life." — Jesus Christ 

John 2-6. 



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APPENDIX 



Scripture Read Spiritually, 



The first commandment says: "Thou shalt have no 
other Gods before me." The God that said this is revealed 
in the ten commandments, and in them we have only refer- 
ence to life, we live in the body, which is the means or 
power to manifest the unseen contrivance and inventions of 
soul and mind or spirit. When these exercises are in ac- 
cordance with the commandments then shall we be growing 
in His image and likeness, and fulfill the end for which we 
were made. Experience, as well as revelation, teaches this 
Christ interpreted the commandments so that we might 
know their spiritual meaning, or the idea which the letter 
represents. The end of the world, as theoretically set forth 
in this book, fulfills the law, the prophets and Jesus Christ, 
and also the saying of mother Shipton, in the time of Henry 
VIII. When man shall manifest the theory in loving obe- 
dience to all the commandments the theory will be finished. 



APPENDIX. 

It is evident idol worship was the occasion of this com- 
mandment, and that idol worship was the invention of 
man, and that the idea of a future state, as popularly held, 
belongs to worship of idols, also the multitudes of Gods, 
and also the burnt offerings, attonements and sacrifices. 
God prohibited Moses from using human sacrifices and al- 
lowing the use of others for their good ; also for the same 
reason that Moses allowed a bill of divorce. Christ says, 
"His commandments are life everlasting," and we must 
worship in spirit and truth. It is mind or spiritual worship 
referred to, instead of material, as Moses instituted, which 
Christ abolished. The dogma of the future state, as held 
by saint and sinner, is not revealed in the ten command- 
ments, and Christ's spiritual interpretation revealed no such 
dogma. Author. 



CONTENTS. 




PREFACE. 




Introduction, ] 


Page 3 


Plan of Salvation, 


7 


Bodies Mortal, 


" 15 


Hope, . 


" 29 


Spiritual Resurrection, 


" 49 


Judges and Judged, . . . 


" 72 


Prophecies Fulfilled, 


82 


Christian Rest, 


" 97 


Spirittal Joys, 


11 108 


Heaven, .... 


" 113 


Christ's Second Coming, 


" 130 


Holy Children, ... 


" 133 


Ante Christ, 


M 143 


Mothers, 


?< 151 


The True Believer, 


" 156 


Extraordinary Passages, 


" 179 


Right Theory Before Right Practice, 


" 205 


Christ's Kingdom Spiritual, 


V 211 


The Father's House or Mansions, 


" 217 


The End, 


" 226 


Body, Soul and Spirit, their Creation 




and Union, 


11 248 


What We Believe, 


» 253 


The Great End for which Christ came 




Into the World, 


» 257 



PREFACE. 



•o 



In reading the scriptures the inquiring mind will 
form opinions of its meaning, and the truthful mind 
will endeavor to attain to the idea, or thought the 
words are meant to convey. The declaration and in- 
struction, or command, to Adam and Eve in the first 
Chapter has respect to them as a family. The com- 
mand in the garden was more informatory than dicta- 
torial, and was of the same nature as was said to them 
in the first Chapter. The tree of good and evil had 
respect to moral qualities of sense and soul in their 
entering into and carrying out in full the reponsibility 
of the family relation. The threatened death was no 
more than the loss of there body and soul happiness. 
This loss Christ restores by teaching us how to over- 
come evil with good. The loss was necessary to their 
attaining a greater good. This is almost universal 
in material transactions. Mothers experience is of 



this character. Suffering may be a consequence of 
our doings not punishment. In Hebrews 11-35 
mothers sufferings are enumerated as being righteous, 
" by which they obtain a better resurrection," mean- 
ing the joy and blessedness of their souls, "that a 
man child is born into the world." To "overcome 
evil with good" is the Christ way; to overcome good 
with evil is the way of the world, the flesh and the 
devil. The seed of the serpent sin in their taking 
pleasure in material things, especially as they take 
pleasure in others misery. Man sins when he plans 
and contrives so as to bring good to himself when he 
knows it will bring evil to others. Cain was a sinner, 
and he might have been a sinner a hundred times be- 
fore he killed his body by tormenting his feelings and 
soul and thus destroy his happiness, which is spiritual 
death. Revelation is given for man whilst he lives in 
the flesh. Christ died because sinners killed Him. 
Christ is a Savior because He was righteous, God 
forgives sin because of His own good pleasure. The 
way He does it has respect to the hardness of men's 
hearts. Man is the crowning work of the Creator of 
this material world, and is so organized that he can 
manifest the attributes of the Creator, this is the end 
for which he was made. 

Our theology was made under the monarchal idea. 
We want a theology in accordance with our American- 
ized Republicanism. The great unbelief of the 
church and the world is their reading texts of scrip- 
ture to a material end, instead of a spiritual. The 



mustard-stalk was not the end for which the parable 
was spoken, but it was the growth, or progress in the 
acquisition of the knowledge of God, and His require- 
ments, in gaining the right theory of operation of 
mind, or spirit, in the giowth of mind for its own 
highest good, and to direct the exercises of the soul 
faculties and to govern the senses. The piece of 
money has a spiritual end. The parable of Dives 
and Lazerus teaches us that the poor and despised 
may have more of the heavenly state of mind than 
the rich, and that the knowledge of the Law and the 
Prophets was more likely to lead to repentance and 
love of good and blessedness, than all one could tell 
us of the state of the dead. Christ used a common 
theory of the world, as well as of the Jews, to mani- 
fest His spiritual teachings for the growth of grace in 
the hearts and minds of believers. 

The Author. 



INTRODUCTION. 



■o- 



In view of the various opinions concerning the na- 
ture, character and destiny of man, I understand it 
to be the duty of every lover of God and man to do 
all he can to obviate mysteries and differences, and 
make easy to the mind, or understanding the begin- 
ing, progress and end of man. 

When we follow the Bible we must begin with man 
as a good being, as God is good, differing in degree, 
if not in kind. There was no limit to the experience 
of man in goodness and blessings, but he was instruct- 
ed by a commandment not to do evil, or to experi- 
ence misery he might learn the knowledge of good 
without evil ; to eat of the forbiden tree was to think 
and do wrong, which was disobedience ; which caused 
his loss of blessedness; which is spiritual death; 
which was the threatened punishment, The seed of 
woman are those that live after the spirit, or do good 
and thus attain to happiness in life. The seed of the 
serpent are those that live after the flesh and never 
gain spiritual life. 



IV INTRODUCTION. 

As in the first, man in his organic body failed to 
attain to that eternal life which was intended. The 
Creator, in Jesus, had a body in which he could mani- 
fest himself, according to the original intention. The 
material organization of man was the end or head of 
created beings on earth, and was the only created 
body that could display his perfections, jesus is our 
only Savior, because he lived without sin ; fulfilled the 
law, and did not transgress any commandment, and 
those that believe in him to salvation, must know God 
and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent, and obey his 
word, which He says is, spirit and life; thus blessed- 
ness which was lost by the first Adam is regained by 
Christ, to the spirit and conscience, and flesh too, as 
far as it can be saved from pain and suffering. 

We find sacrifice and atonements used by men be 
fore Moses instituted them, and they might have been 
the invention of men, for man naturally can do good 
as well as evil. Moses regulated it by abolishing hu- 
man sacrifice, and Christ abolished the remainder and 
established righteousness in all things pertaining to 
the duties and privileges of man towards himself, 
his neighbor and the Creator. Why so much is said 
in the New Testament about atonement and the blood 
of Christ, is to persuade the Jews and all the rest of 
the world to give up the idea of by these means to 
appease the wrath of an offended God and Creator, 
and accept the new way, which was to repent of past 
sin and work works of righteousness. This way of 
reading the Bible finds suport in devious expressions, 
and I see Good in the Old and New Testament lays 



INTRODUCTION. V 

the stress on forsaking their wicked ways and obey 
all His commandments. 

As all agree that the Bible does not teach, or en - 
courage in transgression, but on the contrary com- 
mands men to obey all the teachings, intreaties, com- 
mands and precepts, the Creator has given in our 
natural, or fleshy creation, in the exercise of which 
experience teaches us good and right, as well as wrong 
and evil. To what we learn from our own experience 
we may add the experience of those that have lived 
before us, and their testimony is evidenced by all the 
powers of the senses, soul and spirit like ourselves, it 
is unwise not to believe. To this we add the teach- 
ings of the Creator, which are particular as to our 
physical powers and soul exercises, which are the in- 
stituted ways to acquire facts and truths; which if 
right and good will make in our minds the divine spir- 
it, which will be the Kingdom of Heaven in us. Mo- 
ses says, the keeping of God's commandments is our 
life. Next we have the teachings of the Redeemer* 
in the exercises of his body, soul and spirit we have 
manifested and made easy to our spirit and souls what 
man might and ought to attain by the powers of na- 
ture as man by nature failed, God began a source of 
helpful miracles, which ended with Christ and the 
descent of the spirit on the day of Penticost. By 
this long and various manner God exhausted or finish- 
ed all that could be done to make man a righteous, 
blessed being. This righteousness is all that is requir- 
ed to make us in the image of God. 



VI ■ INTRODUCTION. 

THE CARNAL. 

Job 14-4 says: "Who can bring a clean thing- 
out of an unclean? not one." 

Job is speaking of the natural state, or bodily and 
soul powers of man. 

Job J-J: "O remember that my life is wind." 

This has reference to the breath of all animals that 
cannot live without breath or air. Sin cannot gener- 
ate holiness. Nature cannot give the life eternal. 
Man naturally cannot generate more than the flesh 
and soul. This is what Job refers to. He does not 
mean to say what God by his spirit through this or in 
this unclean thing can do. The way of Jesus Christ 
was not yet revealed. This unclean thing by Christ's 
power is made the temple for its indwelling. God's 
building includes the body as well as the spirit. Be- 
lievers are His house in body, soul and spirit. The 
many mansions Christ speaks of are the various de- 
gres in the believers enjoyments, labors, attain- 
ments, faith, love and holiness. 

Job 17-13: "If I wait the grave is my house, I 
have made my bed in the darkness." 



CHAPTER I. 

THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE PLAN OF SALVATION — THE FALL OF 
MAN AND HIS FINAL RESTORATION PROMISED BY THE SACRIFICE 
OF JESUS CHRIST. 

Gen. i -31: ''And God saw everything He had 
made, and behold it was very good." 

In this chapter we have the account of man being 
made in the image of God. Male and female made 
He them. Male and female refers to the flesh or to 
the material part of man, in connection with the soul 
which was created with the body. The spirit is creat- 
ed, or is the result or consequence of man's keeping 
and obeying God's commandments, and living in ac- 
cordance with the natural good endowments with 
which God had endowed him, in all the functions of 
body and faculties of soul; in this way he would have 
attained to perfection, in the image of God the Creat- 
or. It is plain to every good mind that God intended 
to make use of the fleshy creation, to create the spir- 
itual, or to attain a good character which is a spiritual 
body, in the presence of God, and in the minds of 
men with living bodies. This good character is one 

of Paul's bodies in I Cor.. 15 Chap., to which believ- 
ers are raised up too by their holy exercises. 



8 PLAN OF SALVATION. 

The elder brother of the prodigal, was one that at- 
tained to this character, and was aproved of his father 
because of his loving obediance, while his brother 
was approved by his repentance, and prospective 
obediance. Adam in innocence needed the second 
birth, to attain to perfection in Godliness. Which 
depends on his keeping the commandments, this was 
as necessary before he sinned as it was afterwards. 
Christ by his spirit was in that first command, as 
much as he was in any command after he sinned. 
The righteous need Christ's spirit to keep them from 
sin, as much as the sinner to •repent and forsake sin. 
The natural goodness of man saved him from distruc- 
tion, for a long time— from Adam to Noah. This 
natural goodness is as much from God as supernatur- 
al is, and it was only when this natural goodness was 
lost, or turned into "evil, and every imagination of 
his heart was only evil, continually" that God determ- 
ined to destroy him. In this state of fleshly mind 
man had no faith, spirit or life. 

Deut. 32-20. "And he said, I will hide my face 
from them, I will see what their end shall be ; for 
they are a very fro ward generation, children in whon 
is no faith." They were the children of the serpent, 
and God did not destroy His own work, for this sin 
and misery was man's making out of the natural 
goodness with which God had made him. Man must 
use his natural goodness by and with the spirit, that 
is in the commandments, to attain to eternal life. 

John 6-63. "It is the spirit that quickneth ; the 



PLAN OF SALVATION. 9 

flesh profiteth nothing : the words that I speak unto 
you they. are spirit and they are life." 

John 12-50. "And I know that His commandment 
is life ever lasting: Man was shut off from the tree 
of life that he should not become eternal in his sinful 
state." It was tile loving obedience of Abel and 
Noah that saved them. There was as much of the 
Christ spirit, out of the garden as there was in it, but 
not so clearly manifested, (this spirit is the tree of 
life), therefore man had more to do to gain life be- 
cause of the weakness of the natural fleshly life. 

Romans 7 Chap. "The spirit is willing but the 

flesh is weak." 

God's answer to Cain, shows He was ready to help 

all who would seek Him, or would do well, or would 
follow their natural goodness. God from the garden 
could instruct all that would seek Him. It is written, 
the Lord God made coats of skins and clothed '"hem. 
Whether God instituted sacrifices and attonements, or 
they came into use by the inventions of men, it is of 
but little consequence, since God, through Christ 
coming in the flesh abolished all the religious rites of 
the bloody sacrifice which was the ground of pardon 
for sin, and substituted His own blood and His right- 
eousness, that every one who believes in Him might 
have everlasting life. " The blood of Christ is through 
sq; eternal spirit, made effectual to purge our consci- 
ence, from dead works to serve the living God." 

Romans 6-23. " For the wages of sin is death; 
but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ 
our Lord." 



10 PLAN OF SALVATION. 9 

8-2. " For the law of the spirit of life in Christ 
Jesus, hath made me free from the law of sin and 
death." 

ii Verse. "But if the spirit of Him that raised up 
Jesus from the dead dwell in you; He that raised up 
Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal 
bodies, by his spirit which dwelleth in you." 

14 Verse. "For as many as are led by thespirit of 
God, are the sons of God." 

After man had chosen to think and do evil, God 
instituted, to bring good out of evil, this was the way 
or principle, of Christ's sufferings. Paul rejoiced in 
his sufferings for the good that would come by this 
means to believers. The good resulting to man from 
Christ's sufferings, was the joy set before him." 

There is much suffering of men and women that 
are entered upon, for the good that will result from it. 
This process requires their knowing the end from the 
beginning. As the fear, shame and remorse of 
conscience was the death which Adam experienced 
(and it was the death threatened) so the life Christ 
gives by His spirit, takes away this tormenting fear 
and anguish of soul, and we enter into rest, through 
obedience to all his requirements, the body, soul and 
spirit " brings forth fruits mete for repentance," and 
this is salvation by Jesus Christ. 

All that was done by Moses, and Christ, in the 
flesh, was to prepare the way for the work of the 
spirit, in the hearts of men, that all inteligent beings 
might see and understand, and thus be manifested the 
great and previous blessedness, prepared from the 



PLAN OF SALVATION. 1 1 

foundation of the world for all of God's loving, obedi- 
ent children; all the ransomed shall sit together in 
heavenly places in Christ Jesus. 

This blessed state of the believer, and the right 
exercisea of the soul are declared in the 12 Chapter 
of Romans, commencing at the 9 Verse. And in 
other of the epistles this same enumeration of the 
fruits of the Heavenly or spiritual state of mind, 
shows what is the effect of believing in Christ, as the 
Savior. Natural goodness was all that saved men 
from Adam to Moses, (except when supernatural was 
added in the case of Abram and Joseph). And by 
this goodness man sought out some right invention, 
as well as many evil ones. Abram, Isaac, Jacob and 
Job, and others, are samples of this kind. Christ 
said many should come from the North, from the 
East, the West and the South and sit down in the 
Kingdom of Heaven. This is fulfilled in the present 
existance of righteous Heavenly blessed spirits, in liv- 
ing bodies, from Abel to the present generation. 
What an innumerable company of souls made per- 
fect is this spiritual host before God and the Lamb, 
and in the presence of all intelligent, wise and spir- 
itual believers. 

Luke 20-38. '* For he is not a God of the dead, 
but of the living, for all live unto Him." 

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob have not a bodily"Vesur- 
rection, but they had experienced the spiritual, in 
their living bodies and by their righteous exercises in 
body, soul and spirit, they formed a character which 
is a spiritual body — belongs to things not seen, and is 



12 PLAN OF SALVATION. 

ever present in God's mind, and the minds of all wise 
true believers. It is the spiritual or mind life, that 
the Creator and Redeemer requires, to be in accord- 
ance with his will, as revealed in his commandments 
and teachings, and in the good experiences of the 
natural goodness, with which he has made us capable. 
And their natural goodness being made perfect by the 
spirit of God by or in the outward teaching of the 
word of God, by or through Jesus Christ. The soul 
and spirit which in wise obediance, to the will of the 
Redeemer, is in a saved state. And manifests the at- 
tributes, which makes up the mind of the Creator, 
which is the end for which man was made. 

ist Samuel 13-14: "The Lord sought him a man 
after his own heart." 

2d Kings 23-25. "And like unto him was there 
no king before him that turned to the Lord with all 
his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, 
according to all the law of Moses; neither after him 
arose there any like him. ,, 

Luke 24-45. "Then opened he there understand- 
ing that they might understand the scriptures." 

49. "But tarry ye in Jerusalem, until ye be en- 
dowed with power from on high." 

Eph. 3-19. "And to know the love of Christ, 
which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with 
all the fulness of God." 

The above texts show that man in his saved Godly 
state has the same qualities of mind, soul or spirit 
which Christ or God has though not in the same de- 



PLAN OF SALVATION. I 3 

gree; for it is only in this perfected spiritual state of 
soul and spirit that he can claim to be in the image of 
his maker. ' . 

In this way man is made capable of fulfilling the du- 
ties and enjoying the privileges conferred on him by 
the Creator; in being made ruler and possessor of 
things animate and inanimate, or of all things in 
heaven and earth (spirit or body), as the result of his 
wise and intelligent faith and obediance in Christ the 
Savior. 

Gen. 1-28. "And God blessed them and God 
said unto them, be fruitful and multiply and replenish 
the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the 
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over 
every living thingfthat moveth upon the earth." 

God blesses our first parents as he declares to them 
their linerty, and their duty in exercising all their 
functions of body and faculties of soul, so as to fulfill 
all the requirements of their nature which, He 
had endowed them with. And we cannot suppose 
this power was given them only to be used for the 
good and blessedness of the creatures over which it 
was exercised. These exercises would manifest to 
themselves and all intelligent beings their divine na- 
ture, and show their progress and growth in the same. 
Their works should be all good, as was their Creator's. 
God's declarations and commandments were as neces- 
sary to their divine growth, or spiritual creation as 
dust and food was to their bodily creation and life. 
For the want of love and obedience they lost their 



14 PLAN OF SALVATION. 

soul happiness, which in them was the spiritual life or 
the divine image or likeness. After this, Eve says, 
she has gotten a man from the Lord. And it is said 
of Cain if thou doest well shalt thou not be accepted. 

Gen. 5-24. "And Enoc walked with God and 
he was not for God took him.'' 

The sons of God are spoken of in the same genera- 
tions of men. And Noah was found righteous in his 
generation. 

Although God saw that the wickedness of man was 
great in the earth, yet there were those that were ac- 
cepted of Him, and were found righteous in His sight. 
And in this way were the seed of the woman, while 
the wicked were the seed of the serpent. 

Math. 3-7. "O generation of vipers who hath 
warned you to flee from the wrath to come." 

Math. 23-33. "Ye serpents, ye generation of 
vipers how can ye escape the damnation of hell." 

If parents fully realized the responsibility and con- 
sequences of the married relation, they would pray 
like Hannah, and study and seek to attain the mind 
and spirit of Elizabeth, Mary and of Timothy's 
Mother and Grandmother — see 1 Tim. 25-18 — that 
their children may be sons and daughters of the Lord 
God Almighty, and not children of the serpent. 

Rom. 8-6. "To be carnally minded is death, but 
to be spiritual minded is life and peace. If the pa- 
rents have the mind and spirit of Christ, most surely 
the children will have the same. 



CHAPTER II. 



BODIES MORTAL. 



Job 4-17. * 'Shall mortal man be more just than 
God ? shall a man be more pure than his maker?'' 

Isaiah 38-18. "For the grave cannot praise thee, 
death cannot celebrate thee : they that go down into 
the pit cannot hope for Thy truth." 

19. "The living, the living, he shall praise as I do 
this day, the father to the children, shall make known 
Thy truth." 

It is the living bodies and souls that do praise God, 
and the faith and repentance as manifested by Hesi- 
kiah, grows into a spiritual character which lives be- 
fore all succeeding generations, for their help into the 
same blessed heavenly state of mind; making the 
heavenly spiritual character, or body. Making in the 
ages the innumerable company of saints, that are and 
shall be with Christ, as the Judge of the world, 
among the clouds of doubts and errors of believers, 
and the sins and miseries of the unbelivers. 

Paul says, the believer in Christ is not called to 
Mount Sinai, that burned with fire, nor unto black- 
ness, and darkness and tempest, but ye are come unto 
Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heav- 



l6 BODIES MORTAL. 

enly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of 
angels, to the general assembly and church of the 
first-born, which are written in heaven, and to God 
the judge of all, and the spirits of just men made 
perfect. 

Paul in these texts is making an argument of the 
blessed state of those that believe in Christ, to induce 
them to accept of his righteousness as a renewing 
power, to give them all the blessedness promised in 
the Old Testament, and in this mind character way to 
be in the presence of God, angels and spirits of just 
men made perfect, and all in living bodies. 

Paul, in Hebrews 12-22, 23 and 24, is describing 
the same congregation of saints as Moses, in Deut. 
33-2; as John in Rev., of the city New Jerusalem 
coming down out of heaven, represented by all prec- 
ious pearls, and stones and gold ; as Christ in Math. 
24-31, all the saints should be gathered together from 
one end of heaven to the other. These material rep- 
resentations which men so much value, are intended 
to represent the qualities of mind or spirit of obedi- 
ent believers and their glory or their goodness before 
God. The expression gathered together before God's 
general assembly and church of the first-born come 
unto Mount Sion, the Lord shall come with ten thous- 
ands of his saints. These expressions are fulfilled in 
the minds of each generation of believers and in each 
individual believer by the knowledge which each be- 
liever has of God, Christ and the spirit; which knowl- 
edge makes them all as one mind in Christ and an in- 



BODIES MORTAL. 1 7 

numerable company, as individual characters, or spir- 
tual bodies. These invisible, or celestial spiritual 
bodies make Christ's spiritual kingdom, and by the 
knowledge of each soul and spirit, in each material 
body before death, Js this Christ kingdom a present 
reality. 

Psalm 6-5. ' ' For in death there is no remember- 
ance of thee, in the grave, who shall give thee 
thanks." 

30-9. ' 'What profit is there in my blood, when 
I go down to the pit; shall the dust praise thee; shall 
it declare thy truth." 

88-11. "Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in 
the grave; or thy faithfulness in corruption." 

12. "Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; 
and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness. " 

1 15-17. "The dead praise not the Lord, neither 
any that go down into silence." 

These texts speak of man in all his powers and fac- 
ulties of body and soul, as he was when the Creator 
breathed into him the breath of life, and he became a 
living soul. These texts may refer only to things 
seen, or temporal, for it is true, as applied to bodies, 
for they cannot act or feel when the breath leaves the 
body, but while they did live, their feelings and exer- 
cise of soul and body in action formed a character 
which will survive the body, and be a living principle, 
or body, before or in all minds, or intelligent beings, 
who shall take cognizance of it. In this way Abram 
is still living in the mind of God and man, and does 



1 8 BODIES MORTAL. 

make intelligent Christ's expression, "God is the God 
of the living and not of the dead." 

i Cor. 15-44. "There is a natural body, and there 
is a spiritual body." This spiritual is eternal and has 
gained an existence through all the generations past, 
that have lived like faithful Abram, and since Christ, 
all who will believe in his name, and bring forth fruits 
mete for repentence, shall attain the life and character 
that shall make each one blessed, and cause joy to 
Christ and all holy beings. 

Ecclesiastes 9-10. " Whatsoever thy hand find to 
do do it with all thy might; for there is no work, nor 
device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave, 
whither thou g.oest." 

This text declares the necessity of energetic action, 
and diligent study, to attain to and acquire all quali- 
ties of mind and intelligence, by knowledge and un- 
derstanding, which alone can form in us that wisdom 
which is heavenly and without which we cannot gain 
that character which will live forever. 

Psalms 89 — 48. "What man is he that liveth and 
shall not see death ; shall he deliver his soul from the 
hand of the grave." 

49-12. " Nevertheless man being in honor abid- 
eth not, he is like the beasts that perish." 

49-20. "Man that is in honor and understandeth 
not, is like the beasts that perish." 

Psalm 88- to. "Wilt thou show wonders to the 
dead? shall the dead arise and praise the?" 

88-12. " Shall thy wonders be known. in the dark 



BODIES MORTAL, I9 

and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?" 

Man has all the qualities of the animal, and if he 
will only exercise the passions, and lustful appetites, 
and make physical power, the end of all strife, like 
the brutes. He lives like them, and his end must be 
the same as theirs. Man is the only organized matter 
that can go on to use the functions of body and soul 
to acquire that spirit which, together with the soul, 
perfects God's image in him. The natural powers 
which are first, are the instrument, or means, or the 
way— Christ's way— to acquire knowledge and under- 
standing of ourselves, of others, and of the Creator 
and Redeemer, that we may be found worthy of 
Christ's love and wisdom ; that God like we may 
exercise in ourselves those Godly qualities of mind 
and spirit, justice, equity, love, mercy and righteous- 
ness which perfects God's image in us, making us 
blessed in ourselves, in others and in all God's re- 
quirements. 

This is according to James 3-17 and 18, and re- 
quires to be exercised and practiced immediately, as 
the texts declare, these qualities of mind or spirit can- 
not be exercised after death of the body. 

Psalm 115-17. "The dead praise not the Lord, 
neither any one that go down into silence." 

What a voice in this text. 'Tis like the trump of 
God, an invitation and warning to every soul to make 
haste to be wise, and to possess those qualities of 
mind and spirit which will make them blessed in body, 
soul and spirit in God's appointed way and time. 



20 BODIES MORTAL, 

Matthew 8-22. " But Jesus said unto him follow 
me, let the dead bury their dead." 

22-32. "I am the God of Abraham, and the God 
of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. God is not the God 
of the dead but of the living." 

It is plain from these texts that Christ regarded 
dead bodies in about the same way that the Old Test- 
ament writers did, allowing that dead bodies would 
do nothing for God or man. But whilest these bodies 
lived, they by thought and mind work, or faith manifest- 
ed by their actions, created a character through obed- 
ience to God's will and commands, which raised them 
to immortality, or to a spiritual state, which will be 
eternally recognized by God, and angels and men. In 
the light of the declaration of God to Adam, "dust 
thou art and unto dust thou shalt return;" it is not 
strange that Job and David, as well as Christ, should 
speak of dead bodies as unable to produce any good, 
and not being worthy of much consideration. 

But Christ's pathetic exclamations over the people 
of his day, and his tender invitations, to all his hear- 
ers, shows he was anxious they should use their bod- 
ies and souls with exceeding dilligence, and he even 
seemed to allow violence, in personal effort, to enter 
into His Kingdom, by that faith work, or mind work, 
which was the same under Christ as it was under 
Abraham, Moses and the prophets. 

God the Creator began this faith work in the one 
command he gave to Adam, and in Cain and Abel 
was shown that it was the loving, obedient mind that 



BODIES MORTAL. 2 1 

secured the favor and acceptance with God. And 
this character thus formed has been kept in the minds 
of men ever since. And all other characters have 
been formed in the same way, by obedience to the 
command, in which is the Christ power to save from 
sin and misery, are before God in Christ, giving glory 
and praise to his name. 

Christ made even the work of building the tombs 
of the prophets, and garnishing their sepulchers an 
evidence of their hatred to these good characters in- 
stead of their approval. 

Psalm 146-4. " His breath goeth forth he return- 
eth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish." 

The thoughts perish as to that body, but to all other 
living bodies which know them they still live. This 
is Christ's immortality. Good thoughts, good or right 
knowledge, understanding and judgment, used in 
love and obedience for God, forms a character which 
lives in the minds, or souls, or spirits of all future liv- 
ing bodies. Christ is king over these souls or spirits 
while in living bodies. 

Job 21-26. "They shall lie alike in the dust and 
the worm shall cover them." 

34-15. " All flesh shall perish together and man- 
shall turn again to dust," 

14. "If He set his heart upon man, if he gather 
unto himself his spirit and breath." 

Psalm 104-29. "Thou hidest thy face, they are 
troubled, thou takest away their breath, they die and 
return to their dust." 



22 BODIES MORTAL. 

Ecel. 13-7. "Then shall the dust return to the 
earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who 
gave it." 

3-21. "Who knoweth the spirit of man that go- 
eth upward and the spirit of a beast that goeth down- 
ward to the earth." 

Job 19-25. "For I know that my Redeemer livith 
and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the 
earth." 

26. " And though after my skin worms destroy 
this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. " 

27. "Whom I shall see for myself, and my eye 
shall behold, and not another; though my reins be con- 
sumed within me." (In margin consumed by earnest 
desire). 

God is the author of all spirit of good, and all 
spirits will return to God who gave them. Man in 
his erect position points upwards, so his mind or spirit 
naturaly seeks to know about things, and the reason 
of things, desires inteligence ; these are things above 
the beast in his position, and feelings and spirit desires 
only what is neceseary for his bodily good, which is 
all under his feet on the ground. 

God's commandments and teachings are all to man 
whilst the spirit is in the body. We have nothing to 
do with things before our bodily life, neither can we 
make or alter things after the death of the body, 
therefore, to be curious, or try to know or trouble our- 
selves about these times and the things that belong to 
them, is not wise. Nature points to the time, or life 



BODIES MORTAL. 23 

we live in the flesh, that it is for something more than 
the fleshy life. Experience and revelation teach us 
that the invisable things of mind and spirit, which 
gives knowledge of the Creator and Redeemer, and 
gives power to do good and attain to all righteousness, 
which brings blessedness to all powers, must be pos- 
sesed now, and gives no promise of future good, only 
what is connected with present good and obedience. 

The expression of Job in the texts quoted, was 
completely fulfilled in his life, and prosperity after his 
recovery from his sickness, and this agrees with al} 
the texts in the Old Testament where refference is 
made to the Redemer, or to the redeemed. It is 
evident Job did not loose his perfection in the sight of 
God, although he says, he repents in dust and ashes. 
It was the same with David. He was a man after 
God's own heart because he repented as soon as he 
knew or saw his sin. ("God would have all men to 
repent"). Man's perfection and holiness is to strive 
and labor with all his powers temporal or spiritual, to 
be good and right, and to repent of all sin or wrong 
as soon as known. Man's powers are God's powers 
in saving man from sin and misery. All things are of 
God and to God. 

Math. 10-28. "And fear not them that kill the 
body, but are not able to kill the soul, but rather fear 
him which is able to destroy both soul and body in 
hell." 

Christ in the preceding verses is declaring to the 
diciples the persecutions they should endure from 



24 BODIES MORTAL. 

opposers, which should only be able to destroy the 
body, for the soul and spirit might be in paradise, or 
might rejoice in the God of truth and right, while the 
body was suffering the greatest pain, as the thief on 
the cross might rejoice in Christ's righteousness and 
forgiveness while his body was in pain. In Christ's 
sermon on the mount, (Math. 5th), He tells believers 
to rejoice and be exceeding glad when persecuted for 
righteousness sake, for great was their reward in 
heaven. 

If this text is read in the light or in acordance with 
the Old Testament teachings, (as all texts should be) we 
learn that our God is a consuming fire, and that it 
should burn to the lowest hell, meaning the miserable 
sufferings of the sinner in mind, and soul, and body whilst 
! n sin. God in the Old as well as in the New Testament 
is represented as the author and the giver or dispenser 
of all the misery and distruction, which comes on the 
persistently rebellious sinner. The sinner's willing diso- 
bedience, makes him co-worker with God in his distruc- 
tion, as his willing obediance would make him co- 
worker with God in his salvation. 

Math. 10-34. "Think not I am come to send peace 
on the earth, I come not to send peace but a sword." 

John 14-27. "Peace I leave with you, my peace 
I give unto you, not as the world givith, give I unto 
you." 

These seemingly contradictory texts are made easy 
to understand, when we read them as meaning the two 
worlds, the world of matter, and the world of mind, 



BODIES MORTAL. 25 

or the world of bodies of men, and the world of souls 
and spirits. The sensible, or things seen are temp- 
oral, the things not seen, or mind, soul and spirit are 
eternal. 

Christ in this text means that his words which the 
rebellious sinner hates, and feels himself condemned, 
and is thus made miserable. 

Christ's expression is the same as the Old and New 
Testaments sayings, that a sword and fire should come 
out of his mouth. Where there is no wickedness 
there will be no sword in Christ's coming. The peace 
which Christ gives is of righteousness, justice, love, 
truth and mercy. The world of sense gives peace by 
sense, material means, cuning, deceit, physical power. 

Christ says, he that hath ears to hear let him hear. 
By this we understand Christ ment to teach man's 
natural abilities, when properly or rightly used, to 
learn of our duties and responsibilities, we may know 
of the doctrine, as well as by obedience. God deals 
with man as an independent being, as well as accord- 
ing to his dependence. 

Romans 8— 1 1 . "But if the spirit of him who rais- 
ed up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that rais- 
ed up Christ from the dead shall "also quicken your 
mortal bodies, by his spirit that dwelleth in you." 

6-12. " Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal 
body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. " 

i Cor. 15-53. "For this corruption must put on 
incorruption, this mortal must put on immortality.'' 

54. "So when this corruptible shall have put on 



26 BODIES MORTAL. 

-incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immor- 
tality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is 
written, Death is swallowed up in victory." 

2 Cor. 4.-11. il For we which live are alway deliv- 
ered unto death for Jesus sake, that the life also of 
Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh." 

5-4. "For we that are in this tabernacle do groan 
being burdned, not for that we would be unclothed 
but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed 
up of life." 

Paul in these texts is speaking of man in his body 
as mortal according to the declaration of God to Ad- 
am — " dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return," 
but this dust is made immortal by the spirit of God, 
through Jesus Christ, by the body and soul being 
made the instrument or means by which the knowl- 
edge of God's commands are attained, and loved, 
and obeyed, creates that blessedness which is rep- 
resented by the new berth, the resurrection, regen era- 
tion, water of life, which makes up God's character 
as manifested in, or by the body of Jesus Christ, is 
also required to be manifested in the lives of believers, 
through, or by their mortal bodies ; that they may 
gain that imortal character of soul and spirit, as Ab- 
raham, Moses and all the saints. David's immortality 
consisted in his character that he created through the 
means of his mortal body, by exercising himself in all 
those godly requirements of mind, and spirit, and 
soul, that gained him the appelation of a "man after 
God's own heart." The body may claim all the honor 



BODIES MORTAL. 2J 

and good its Creator intended, but it must not set 
itself up as mind or spirit; it is enough for it to be the 
temple, the house; means of gaining that eternal char- 
acter which is ever in the presence of God, and all 
living bodies on earth, and are ever glorifying God in 
singing the songs of Moses and the Lamb. 

The immortality of the body is only in its connec- 
tion with the immortal character, or spirit which it has 
been instrumental in making. The immortality of the 
body has respect to kind, or quality, or character; 
not to time. The spirit, or character, which has been 
the result of the use of the body, is eternal, as it 
respects time, as well as of kind, or quality of dust 
as it exhists in body, must not rise to the equality of 
thought, or spiritual, or character; although it is en- 
titled to a glory, according to its place, in the progress 
of the manifestation of the devine attributes, and 
Character of the Creator, Redeemer, and Preserver. 
The invisible spirits, or characters, of true believers, 
in all time, make up the heavenly host, over which 
Christ is king, and all this invisible heavenly host is 
present with the invisible spirits, or characters of true 
believers, while on earth in the body. Christ's resurrec 
tion was of the body; believers resurrection is of the 
soul, or spirit, raised from the death of sin. Those 
souls who will not be lifted up by this Christ power, 
must remain an earthly character, and in the end 
perish like all temporal things. 

They may attain to earthly or fleshly glory, which 
also gloryfies the Creator, because He is the author, 



28 BODIES MORTAL. 

or creator, of all the powers of their bodies, or souls, 
or materials by which they manifest their contrivences, 
or inventions. We know of no other organised matter 
that can do what man can, even in his fleshly life; 
this is what makes him head, and gives him power to 
rule over all other creatures, and things, seen or temp- 
oral, and when this fleshly power, or life, is by the 
knowledge of, and obediance to the Creator's com- 
mandments, made partaker of those attributes of 
mind, or spirit, which make the eternal character of 
God ; and is thus made to put on his likness, and is 
entitled to the appellation of sons, and daughters, of 
the Lord God Almighty. 

In this way, we see how death is swallowed up of 
life, or the victory over death ; that is victory over 
spiritual, or soul, death ; or the misery of soul, which 
is spiritual death. Every sinner when accepting of 
Christ, by repentance, and faith, and obediance to 
God's will, is made joyous in soul, and spirit, and re- 
lieved of bodily suffering, as much as it can be in this 
changable, temporal state. 

In this way man overcomes spiritual death, fulfill- 
ing Christ's type of overcoming temporal death. 
Christ must fulfill all things for saint and sinner. He 
was made sin for man, that man might be made the 
righteousness in Christ, or take hold of that sinless 
life, which Christ manifested in his fleshly body, 
whilst on earth ; for salvation is all in righteousness— 
not a bit of it in sin. 

Adam, was in a saved state before his disobediance, 



HOPE. 29 

but as soon as he obeyed his own will, in opposition 
to God's will, he was conscious of wrong, and this took 
away his peace love of the Creator, and instead there- 
of, he had shame and remorse. This was spiritual 
death, the death the Creator threatned him with, and 
it was the full punishment for his sin. 



CHAPTER III. 

HOPE. 

Job 4-6. " Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, 
thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways." 

In this, Elipas shows Job that his past doings were 
what he must depend on for his consolation. . 

Job 7-6. " My days are swifter than a weavers 
shuttle, and are spent without hope." 

The verses connected with this text shows Job's 
sickness, and anguish of soul, was so great he should 
die and see no good. 

11-18. " And thou shalt be secure, because there 
is hope : yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt 
rest in safety." 

The reason of this hope, rest, and safety, is because 
man knows God's ways, and dealings with man, to 



30 . HOPE. 

promote man's good, and blessedness, whilst the spirit 

is in the body. 

14-19. ' ' The waters wear the stones: thou wash- 

est away the things which grow out of the dust of the 

earth; and destroyest the hope of man." 

This has reference to man, this side the grave. 

Ece. 9-4. "For to him that is joined to all the 
living there is hope." 

This refers to the exercise of the soul, while in the 
living body, and in the right exercise of the senses ; 
and soul faculties, in keeping the commandments, 
would have spiritual life. 

Isaiah 57-10. • "Thou art wearied in the greatness 
of thy way; yet saidest thou not, there is no hope: 
thou hast found the life of thy hand ; therefore thou 
wast not grievd." 

The prophet is discribing a very wicked person that 
will not acknowledge there is no hope in this way of 
living; showing that* hope has reference to the end of 
the exercises of the soul while it is in the body. 

Jer. 18-12. "And they said there is no hope; 
but we will walk after our own devices, and we will 
every one do the imaginations of his own evil heart." 

In this text there is no hope, because they are de- 
termined to walk in their own evil way, or after their 
evil imaginations. 

Jer. 14-7. Speaks of the Lord as the hope of Is- 
real. The Savior and hope in this place refers to 
their deliverance from temporal evils. 

17-7. "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the 
Lord, and whose hope the Lord is." 



HOPE. 3 1 

Hope in this text is about the same as faith. It 
represents the power in the soul, or spirit, by which 
man is enabled to keep God's commandments, and 
attain to all blessings, temporal and, spiritual this side 
the grave. 

Sam. 3-21, 24. "This I recall to my mind, there- 
fore have I hope. The Lord is my portion, saith my 
soul; therfore have I hope." 

In this text hope partakes of the nature of faith, 
and he will under all his persecutions trust to all those 
qualities of soul, and mind, and spirit, w r hich makes 
man in the image of God, and by patient wating ob- 
tain his goodness. 

Ezk. 37-u. "Then he said unto me, son of man, 
these bones are the w T hole house of Isreal: behold 
they say our bones are dryed, our hope is lost." 

This refers to their being in captivity in Babylon, 
and they had lost all hope of returning to Jerusalem. 

Joel 3-16. "But the Lord will be the hope of his 
people, and, the strength of the children of Isreal." 

Here the Lord is put in opposition to idol worship, 
and its sensual wickedness. The Lord represents the 
law and prophets and all the commandments of Moses, 
in the observance of which was their hope or life. 

Zech. 9-12. "Turn you to the strong hold, ye 
prisoners of hope : even to-day do I declare that I will 
render double unto thee." 

This is spoken of the restoration of the Jews and all 
mankind, from evil to good, from disobedience to 
obedience. 



32 HOPE. 

Acts 23-6. "Men and brethren, lam a Pharasee, 
the son of a Pharisee : of the hope and resurrection of 
the dead I am called in question." 

The hope of Isreal, which was the fulfillment of the 
promises of the Old Testiment, concerning the com- 
ing of the Mesiah, and the prosperity of the Jewish 
nation. Paul mentions the resurrection as a subject 
matter, to divide his enemies, and by that means gain 
an advantage. It is not certain whether he ment the 
raising of the body, or the raising of the soul and 
spirit, according to Paul in Romans. 

6-1 1. " Likewise reckon also ye yourselves to be 
indeed dead unto sin, but alive unto God, through 
Jesus Christ our Lord." 

Christ was raised bodily ; believers are raised spirit- 
ualy, created anew in Christ Jesus. 

Acts 24-15. "And have hope toward God which 
they themselves also alow, that there shall be a resur- 
rection of the dead, both of the just and unjust." 

The hope of Isreal in this verse, is the fulfillment 
of the promises in the Old Testament. 

The resurrection in this text, is like to the idea in 
Daniel 12-2, and in Ezkel 37-12; refering to men in 
evil circumstances, brought out of them, to places of 
ease and blessedness. The same idea is in other texts, 
where prisoners are brought out of their prison houses. 

John 5-21. "For as the Father raiseth up the 
dead, and quickeneth them, even so the son quickneth 
whom he will." 

25. "Verily, verily I say unto you, the hour is 



hope, 33 

coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the 
voice of the Son of God : and they that hear shall live. 
Christ is hear speaking of the spiritual resurection, of 
quickning, renewing, or new birth, new creatures in 
Christ Jesus, passed from the death of sin to a life of 
repentence, and obedience, love and good will to 
man. This state of mind and heart in believers is 
what was promised in the Old Testament, and there 
described as the new heavens, and new earth, being 
In the new laws, governments, ruling power, of right- 
eousness, which shall govern all believers, into all 
right, and good actions. The first fruits of salvation, 
was at the day of Penticost, and after the day (of 
Paul's falling away is fulfilled) will come the multitude 
of believers that shall be the full harvest. This state 
of good, without evil, will fulfill all those great promi- 
ses of the Old Testament, that His people may be 
kings and priests unto God, and sons and daughters 
of the Lord God Almighty. This is the hope of the 
gospel, or the faith of God in Jesus Christ, and when 
believers shall watch every thought and feeling of 
heart, and every action of body, to find Christ in them 
and to make them Christ like, then shall they see 
through the clouds of their doubts, and ignorance, 
Christ coming in great glory, as the wisdom, goodness, 
and the enlargement of mind, and love of all spiritual 
knowledge of mind, or things invisable; which will 
bring man to his highest state of good, and blessed- 
ness, in body, soul, and spirit. 

Acts 26-6. " And now I stand and am judged for 



34 HOPE. 

the hope of the promise made of God unto our 
fathers."" 

Paul here refers to the Old Testament promises, and 
the hope here partakes of faith and confidence, and 
Paul is here teaching that in Christ are these promises 
fulfilled, in the doing away of the old Mosaic way of 
pardoning sin, by sheding of blood, and by Christ 
bringing in everlasting righteousness, by faith, repent- 
ance and obedience, which in part, if not in whole, 
fulfills the promise, "Behold I make all things new," 
the question of the resurrection, Paul uses as a means 
of trying to clear himself from the accusation of the 
jews, as I understand it, it is as likely the idea of the 
bodily resurrection, originated in the Gentile world, as 
in the Jewish. I think that the declaration, "dust 
thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return," is not mod- 
ified or repealed by Moses, or Jesus Christ. The 
spiritual part, which in Adam failed to come into ex- 
istance, in Jesus Christ was made complete, which 
was the end for which man was made. 

Acts 28-20. "For this cause, therefore, have I 
called for you, to see you and to speak with you, be- 
cause that for the hope of Isreal I am bound with this 
chain." 

The hope of Isreal was the coming of the Mesiah ; 
the wonderfull councelor, the begining and the end, 
the Mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of 
peace. This war all to take place in this world of 
mind, and world of mater, or sense. In all the 
promises there is no reference to any place but this 



hope. 35 

earth, and no declaration of a state of existence after 
the death of the body. 

The spiritual body Paul speaks about in the 1 5 chap- 
ter of 1 Cor. , is the character which is formed by ex- 
ercise of soul and mind, giving direction to all bodily 
actions, and if all these varid exercises of mind, are 
in accordance with the Creator's and Redeemer's will, 
and all actions of body are in obediance to their re* 
quirements, then there is a living spiritual body, which 
is a reality to all believers, in all generations, whilst 
they are in living bodies. " God is not the God of the 
dead, but of the living." The hope of Isreal is the 
righteous blessed exercise of soul and spirit, in liv- 
ing bodies, making the spiritual kingdom of God, 
and of Christ. Thus the spiritual world, and the 
material world, or world of bodies, and spirits, are 
in connection in some respects, and in others they are 
two. The mind of the first good man is the same as 
the last. This makes mind, or spirit eternal. The 
faith of x\bram is the same in all the generations since. 

Rom. 5-4. " And patience experience, and ex- 
perience hope, and hope maketh not ashamed." 

Hope in this place partakes of the nature of faith 
and knowledge, and refers to the foundation work of 
the holy spirit, which makes us accepted in the spiritual 
kingdom. 

8-24. ' ' For we are saved by hope, but hope that 
is seen is not hope." 

Hope here refers to the time when Christ's spiritual 
kingdom shall be established in the hearts of all men, 



$6 HOPE. 

or so nearly so that there should not be any persecu- 
tion of believers, when good should overcome evil, 
when the body should be deliverd from all evil that 
it possibly could be by the holy spirit that dwells in 
it. ' ' Because the creature itself also shall be deliv- 
ered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious 
liberty of the children of God." 

Rom. 15-4. ' ■ For whatsoever things were written 
afore time, were written for our learning, that we, 
through patience and comfort of the scriptures, might 
have hope/' 

Hope is the great faculty of the soul, in the exer- 
cise of which man, by the imagination, attains to 
great happiness. And Paul uses the word here 
because of its universal acceptance, or use, as the rep- 
resentee of that power in the believer, by which he 
was enabled to understand the scriptures, and thus 
learn what "Isreal's hope" was, and to rejoice in self- 
denial, and ministring to the wants and necessities of 
the brethren. 

1 Cor. 13-13. "And now abideth faith, hope, chari- 
ty, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." 

Hope, in this verse means in part that power in 
the mind, by which we are enabled to be good and 
do good. Paul in this chapter is greatly extoling 
charity, or Godly christian love, and speaks of knowl- 
edge of the ceremonial law, which required the shed- 
ing of blood for the pardon of sin, as vanishing away. 
He speaks of it, as being abolished and nailed to the 
cross by Christ. 



hope, 37 

The things seen in a glass darkley, are the things 
belonging to Christ's kingdom, which are things of 
mind, soul, and spirit, which are not seen, and are 
eternnal. Not one of the things he speaks of, as be- 
longing to charity, are temporal, or things seen, but 
are unseen, and eternal, and the church, as yet, is in 
darkness, as to Christs spiritual mind kingdom. 

I Cor. 15-19.. "If in this life only, we have hope, 
we are of all men most miserable. " 

By referring to other passages, we can establish the 
two worlds, and if Paul here refers to the world of 
bodies, or sensual things, then it is plain that the be- 
liever could not be happy, for he could not indulge in 
any of the pleasures of sense or sin, and being with- 
out hope, or faith in the spiritual, he would be cut off 
from enjoyment in either world. The bodily resurrec- 
tion of Christ, which typifyes, or shadows forth the 
spiritual lifting up, or quickning, raising to life the 
soul and spirit of the sinner, gives him hope, life joy, 
which the material world can not take away. In the 
life of the flesh, Christ told his disciples they should 
receive persecution, at the same time in their soul 
and spirit, they should rejoice and be glad, for great 
was their reward in heaven; that is heaven within them, 
that is the state of mind and heart, in loving obedi- 
ance to Christ's teachings, and commandments ; rejoic- 
ing that they were worthy to suffer for His sake. 
Christ Himself suffered in the flesh, and had no hope 
in any quality of the soul, belonging to the flesh. 
His hope lay in the good results which should come 



$8 HOPE. 

to souls of men, in consequence of His bodily suffer- 
ings. This hope of the good that should come to 
others was "the joy set before Him." This joy be- 
longs to mind and spirit, while in the body which are 
not seen, and make the invisible world, or the world 
to come. This spiritual world will come when all, or 
the greater majority of mankind, shall walk in the 
spirit, and not live after the flesh. Then shall those 
blessed promises of the Old Testament be fulfilled, 
when all shall know me, from the least to the greatest, 
the whole world shall be filled with the knowledge of 
the Lord, as the waters fill the seas. 

This will be the millennial state, and will come 
when men will live after, or in the spirit, and not after 
the flesh. God has done His part, and is wating for 
man to do his. The old world of bodily works, by 
miracles and blood in the flesh, was ended in Christ's 
death. 

The new spiritual world, began at the day of pen- 
ticost and was perfect in the first fruits, but the fall- 
ing away in the revealing of the antichrist, which is 
in the world and church, believing in material forms 
and things, and looking for the body of Christ in 
stead of His mind and spirit. Here comes in the use 
and necesity of Christ's exhortation, or command to 
his disciples, to watch for the coming of the son of 
man. This watching is not for His body, but for op- 
portunities to learn His commandments, and teachings 
towards God and our fellow men. This state of mind, 
can only come by understanding the scriptures of the 



hope. 39 

Old and New Testament. This understanding can 
only come by seeking, knocking and striving to attain 
to that knowledge of God and Christ, to which is 
attached the promised blessing of life everlasting. 
The day of miracles and ignorance is past, and now 
the powers of the natural man, exercised by the pow- 
ers of the Holy Spirit, in the new creature, which has 
been born again, raised from the death of sin and 
misery, passed from death unto life, all this is done by 
the truth, in the way to produce life or blessedness. 
Christ is the truth, the way and the blessedness. 

2 Cor. 1-9. "But we had the sentence of death 
in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but 
in God, which raiseth the dead." 

10. 4< Who delivered us from so great a death, and 
doth deliver: in whom we trust that He will yet de- 
liver us." 

This is Paul's watchings for Christ's spiritual com- 
ing, to save him from apostatising from the salvation, 
and has great consolation in scriptures, that the Christ 
good, shall sometime destroy the serpentine evil. 

1 John 3-8. "For this purpose the son of God 
was manifested, that He might destroy the works of 
the devil." 

Gal. 5-5. " For we through the spirit wait for the 
hope of righteousness by faith." 

In this verse we have a direct exhortation, or com- 
mand, to renew Christ, or his spirit, in our spirits to 
save us. Christ's salvation, is in or by the soul and 
spirit. We must have right hope, as well as right 



40 HOPE. 

knowledge. We must have right fears and imagina- 
tion, as well as right understanding. Our affections 
must be right, as well as our judgment. These right 
qualities of soul and spirit will make the will right. 
The soul and spirit thus possessed of faith righteousness, 
is delivered from the forms and bodily works of the 
law pertaining to material things. Blood could not 
atone for the sin of the soul, it must atone for its own 
sins, by sacrificing its own love of sensual and materi- 
al good ; by changing from the fleshly love, to love of 
spiritual truths and ideas, which make up the wisdom 
of God. Paul, in the previous verses, is very plainly 
showing that the Jews could not be saved by any 
works of the flesh, or the law. Here is the two 
worlds over against each other, the world of things 
seen, and the mind or spirit world which is not seen. 

Eph. 1-17. "That the God of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the 
spirit of wisdom, and the revelation in the knowledge 
of him." 

18. "The eyes of your understanding being en- 
lightned: that ye may know what is the hope of his 
calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheri- 
tence in the saints." 

Hope, in this text embraces all the wisdom, good- 
ness, power and glory the believer posseses in conse- 
quence of his believing in Jesus. By the Holy Spirit 
He calls us to faith, to love goodness to knowledge, to 
obedience, to respect each others rights. He calls us 
to make others happy as well as ourselves. 



HOPE. 41 

Eph. 2-12. "Having no hope, and without God 
In the world." 

Hope in this text stands for the christian graces and 
character, or rather that there want more of the grace 
and character, the Gentiles did not possess the hope of 
Isreal. 

4-4. "There is one body and one spirit, even as 
ye are called in one hope of your calling." 

Here is the two worlds, visible and invisible, in con- 
nection to produce one result; even the holiness of life 
and heart, and when the body shall have finished its 
part in helping to form the spiritual character, it will 
cease to have connection, and the character will live 
on in the mind of God and succeeding generations of 
men. 

Col. 1-5. "For the hope which is laid up for you 
in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of 
the truth of the gospel." 

Heaven is a place of happiness, or state of mind 
and soul in happiness, or blessedness. "The kingdom 
of God is written you." This is a ruling text. Heav 
en here is put in opposition to hell, or a miserable 
state of soul and spirit, while the spirit is in the body. 

Col. 1-23. "If ye continue in the faith, grounded 
and settled and be not moved away from the hope of 
the gospel which ye have heard." 

The hope of Isreal was to love God and keep all 
his commandments, the hope of the gospel is faith 
and repentence, and obedience, and goodwill to]man, 
the result of which is the deliverance of man from the 



$2 HOPE, 

misery of soul and spirit while in the body. Hope 
has always been used as the faculty of the soul which 
represents the highest happiness of the soul. Paul 
takes this common state of feelings to express the 
righteousness of Jesus Christ, although hope be!ongs y 
and is a true expression under Moses and in religion, 
and can draw largely from the immagination. The gos- 
pel is a fulfillment of the Mosaic dispensation, and 
therefore is a reality, and cannot draw much from im- 
magination, but must depend on fact truth evidence 
as the experience of man teaches him, through the 
knowledge, understanding and judgment. 

These are the attributes of mind and spirit that 
the gospel hope depends on for its existence in the 
heart or mind of man. The affections may be the 
heart of religion, but the knowledge the understand- 
ing and jndgment is the heart of righteousness. The 
new heart which God gives, or as Christ expresses it, 
the new birth. 

27. "Which is Christ in you the hope of glory." 

Christ says, the Father should be irf Him, and He 
in the disciples. God is a spirit, and He dwells by 
His spirit in the minds of true believers. 

1 Thes. 5—8. " But we who are of the day be sob- 
er, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for 
a helpmate the hope of salvation." 

In the last part of the Chapter before, Paul is men- 
tioning some circumstances attending the coming of 
Christ. In this Chapter, he acknowledges no one 
knows the time of his coming, but believers are the 



hope. 43 

children of light and of the day, not children of the 
night, or ignorance. Light is knowledge and wisdom 
to know the signs of the times, and to know the 
chances and opportunities of getting good and doing 
good, and power of doing and possessing all this good 
is said to be the hope of salvation. 

2 Thes. 2-16. "Now the Lord Jesus Christ Him- 
self and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, 
and hath given us everlasting consolation and good 
hope, through grace. ,, 

Hope is used in this place, as in others, because it 
was a word used to express the highest good of man. 
And as in the Old Testament, God was the hope of 
his people, so here he is spoken of in connection with 
Jesus Christ, as the author of our consolation ; which 
will establish and comfort all hearts of true believers 
in every good word and work. 

The last verse of the fourth chapter of 1 Thesselo- 
nians, is an uncomon exhortation, or revelation, to en- 
courage and comfort, but the last verses of tnis chap- 
ter are common, and direct to the intelligence and wis- 
dom of the soul and spirit. 

Paul ends his argument in this chapter, and in 
others, as the last part of the 12 chapter of Romans, 
he enumerates the christian graces and virtues, as the 
end for which he has used all the previous argument. 
All the argument in the 15 chapter of 1 Corinthians, 
about the death, resurrection and the different bodies, 
in the last verses, shows they were to persuade men 
to every good work and word. 



44 HOPE. 

I Timothy i-i. "Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ, 
by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord 
Jesus Christ which is our hope." 

This is in contrariety to the Jews hope, which was 
in God through Moses, and refers to Christ's spiritual 
teachings and commandments. 

Titus 2-13. "Looking for that blessed hope, and 
the glorious appearing of the great God and our 
Saviour Jesus Christ." 

The word hope stands for all the believer receives, 
or posseses by believing God and Jesus Christ. The 
glorious appearing of Jesus Christ, is when believers 
shall exercise themselves in all the functions of body, 
in all the faculties of soul, and in all attributes of spirit, 
according to all the teachings and commandments of 
Jesus Christ, and according to Paul's exhortations and 
instructions in this and other chapters. See 
Romans 12, commencing at the 9 verse. We do not 
know from our own experience, or from the Bible, 
that this glory and blessedness can be posessed in a 
state after death of the body, as we do know from the 
Bible, and our experience, that this glorious blessed- 
ness possesses the true and wise believer, in soul and 
spirit, while in the living body, hence we see a reason 
why the appostles and Christ were so earnest and sac- 
rificing in bodily good, that they might induce some 
and all to repent and become holy ; that they might 
possess and enjoy all the good the God of nature and 
revalation makes them capable. 

Isaiah 38-18. "For the grave cannot praise thee, 



hope. 45 

death cannot celebrate thee : they that go down into 
the pit cannot hope for thy truth." 

Titus 3-7. "That being justified by his grace, we 
should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal 
life." 

That is, should continue in a blessed happy state of 
soul and spirit. Should have no remorse of conscien- 
ce, or shame or fear of evil. 

Heb. 6-1 1. "And we desire every one of you do 
shew the same diligence, to the full assurance of hope 
unto the end." 

1 Tim. 1-5. "The end of the commandment is 
charity, Christ is the end of the law." 

The end for which the law was made, was to make 
men wise, to know God, to love and obey Him, 
This is what Christ did, therefore he fulfilled all for 
which man was made, and Paul is urging believers to 
strive to attain to the same perfection or end. As in 
the beginning of this chapter he is teaching them to 
leave the principles and doctrins, which are only 
means to advance the mind, to the wisdom, and holi- 
ness, and blessedness, which is the privilege of every 
believer. In this, the word hope represents this holy 
christian character. As this character cannot be 
attained in one thought, or act, but is a continued 
process, or progress of acquired facts, and acts of 
body, soul and spirit. And the more we learn and 
know of God, and of ourselves, the more opens be- 
fore us of this Christ way of life and blessedness ; that 
we need to leave the things that are behind, and to 



46 HOPE. 

press forward to the things that are before, to the prize 
of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 

Heb. 3-14. "For we are made partakers of 
Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence 
steadfast unto the end." 

The hope set before us is faith in the spiritual life 
which Christ teaches. The hope in Christ is better 
than the hope in the law of Moses. 

1 Peter 1. In this chapter hope is spoken of as 
against the hope of Isreal under the law of Moses, 
and opposite to the hope of man, from material 
things. 

Verse 9. " Renewing the end of your faith, even 
the salvation of your soul." 

Salvation does not refer to an existance after the 
death of the body. 

3-15. Requires every believer to give a reason of 
his hope. In the verses before, and after the text, is 
stated the exercises of mind, and heart, and actions of 
body, which becomes the believer, w 7 hich is here 
termed a hope. 

1 John 3-3. "And every man that hath this hope 
in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure." 

Hope in this verse is that principle, or faith, or 
wisdom which is created in us by the spirit of God 
and Christ which is in us, that directs us into all good 
words, good exercises of mind and heart, and good 
works. When we are filled with this pureness of body, 
soul and spirit, the flesh, the world and the devil can 
find no place in us. 



hope. 47 

Rom. 15—13. "Now the God of hope, fill you 
with all joy and peace in believing, that you may 
abound in hope, through the power of the Holy 
Ghost." 

All that is clearly revealed to us of the state of 
souls after death of body, is but a very little work, or 
knowledge, for the end of all God's commandments 
and miracles by Moses, and Jesus Christ in the flesh, 
was to perfect the spirit, and Christ's spiritual' coming 
at the day of penticost, manifested what a holy spirit 
was. But when we understand all this variety of 
labor, of revelations, and miracles, and the spiritual 
mainifestation of the spirit, at the day of penticost, to 
be for the perfecting of man in his mind and spirit, 
whilst in the body, we can perceive a great and worthy 
object to be attained. Nothing lese that the display 
of mind or spirit by means of matter. 

The first exercise of the child's soul, is in and for 
its food, which nourishes its body; this is an exercise 
of soul for the flesh, and in the flesh this, I suppose, 
is not wrong. The continuance of this process grows 
up a body, without which there cannot be a spirit. 
By the time this soul has experienced a few years it 
begins to learn differences between feelings of soul,, 
and between things and acts of body and mind, and 
to distinguish between good and evil, or right and 
wrong. Hope for the good is the strongest faculty of 
the soul, and looks in the future for things it seeks to 
attain or possess. The child, the youth, the man 
growing up in this way, gets to consider hope the 



48 HOPE. 

greatest faculty of the mind, and any object, or thing, 
or exercise of mind that cannot be contradicted by 
evidence and facts, and yet is best suited to give scope 
and exercise to the immagination, will give the high- 
est extacy and joy to the feelings and affections. 
This state of the soul might be attained in the early 
histor}' of man, and in the invention of the existence 
of man's being. After the death of the body the 
soul possessed a subject, or an imagined existance, 
which there was no facts, or evidence in man's experi- 
ence, or knowledge to deny; and is not this what gives 
the idea of a future state such power over the minds 
of men, and operates as an excuse for man to put off 
the doing and being good now, and of gaining bless- 
edness now, this side of the grave, because of the hope 
of that great good and blessed state after death, which 
is so pleasing and satisfying to the feelings and affec- 
tions of man. There cannot be any disappointment 
in this state of mind, this side the grave, and is not 
this circumstance that gives the living such blessed con- 
solation in the bodily death of dear friends, and especi- 
ally in those that seem to have life given only to be 
taken away. 



CHAPTER IV, 



SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION. 



John 11-25. "Jesus saith unto her, I am the 
resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, 
though he were dead, yet shall he live. ,, 

26. "And whosoever liveth and believeth in me 
shall never die." 

5-21. " For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and 
quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom 
hewill. ,, 

14-6. "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the 
truth, and the life." 

6-63. " It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh 
profiteth nothing : the words that I speak unto you, 
they are spirit, and they are life." 

Romans 8-1 1. " But if the spirit of him that rais- 
ed up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that rais- 
ed up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your 
mortal bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you." 

In the 15th Chapter of 1 Corinthians, from the 42d 
to the 50th verse inclusive, shows that the resurrection 



50 SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION, 

is not of, or in the body only, as the body is blessed 
by the truth and holiness of the spirit, or mind of 
God, that through Christ quickeneth, or raiseth us 
from a state of sin and misery, to a state of righteous- 
ness and blessedness. In the last verses, Paul quotes 
from Isaiah 25th, a prophesy of the destruction of 
the covering cast on the face of all people ; meaning 
the ignorance, fleshly mindness and misery which 
prison like, shut out from their minds, or spirits, the 
joys and blessings of the intelligent, obedient, loving 
heart and spirit, which Isaiah promised should take 
place at the coming of the Mesiah. This was fulfiled 
on the day of Penticost, in the believers, as their 
hearts were opened to understand the spiritual, or 
mind meaning of the scriptures; which brought them 
to fulfill the other part of the prophesy, that "death 
should be swallowed up of victory." And all " tears 
should be wiped away from all faces. " 

The death referred to is the conscious feeling of 
shame and remorse of soul and spirit, caused by trans- 
gression of the law of good and right, which is abol- 
ished (spiritual death) through Christ, in their repent- 
ance, and their forsaking all wrong doing and think- 
ing, and their exercises, body, soul and sp'rit in all 
obedience, in love and wisdom, to all Christ's require- 
ments. Misery of soul, or spirit, or mind is spiritual 
death, as in the case of Adam, the shame and fear 
and remorse of consciense he experienced was the 
death God threatened him. Cain was a sample of the 
dead sinner; Able a sample of the raised, or quickned 



SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION. 5 I 

soul or spirit, which in loving obedience to the com- 
mandments, was filled with the same kind of peace 
and joy which Christ promised to his desciples. The 
" world " gives peace and joy by doing one wrong to 
cover up another, and by indulging in sensual pleas- 
ures to destroy the soul misery. King Saul's way to 
gain relief was a worldly way, not Christ way, which 
is to be born of the spirit, and every new idea of 
good, right and truth, exercised in loving obedience, 
! s a, or the, new birth, or resurrection. This was ex- 
emplyfied from earliest infancy, by Samuel, by Christ, 
by Timothy, and in an immediate change from sin to 
holiness by Saul of Tarsus, and all others who were 
born out of darkness into God's marvelous light, were 
made new creatures in Christ Jesus, were quickned, 
were made imortal. Christ abolished spiritual, or 
soul, death, to all those souls and spirits that love and 
keep his commandments. 

Luke 15-24. "For this my son was dead, and is 
alive again; he was lost, and is found." 

Eph. 2-1. "And you hath he quickned, who were 
dead in treaspasses and sins." 

5-14. "Wherefore He saith, Awake thou that 
sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give 
thee light.' ' 

John 5-24. "Verily, Verily I say unto you, He 
that heareth my words and believeth on him that sent 
me hath everlasting life, and shall not come into con- 
demnation, but is passed from death unto life." 

8-51. "Verily, Verily I say unto you, if a man 



52 SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION. 

keep my sayings, he shall never see death. " 

The Jews, as well as Martha, were always thinking 
and speaking of the resurrection of the body, but 
Christ was always ready to use the popular opinions 
/which were about material things) to instruct into the 
spiritual things belonging to the mind and spirit of 
man, in which is his spiritual kingdom. The Mosaic 
Religion was in forms and ceremonies, and respected 
the bodily actions of the believer with his material of- 
ferings. This kind of religion was older than Moses, 
and was by him modified and changed so that it 
should not oppose righteousness, and to be continued 
till God's time to bring in everlasting righteousness, or 
the Mesiah, who nailed all this material religion to the 
cross, had in his death finished and made an end of 
sin, and of all this world of labor and invention of 
men, to try to appease by blood and fire the wrath of 
their offended Creator and Redeemer, and in Christ's 
resurrection He evidenced to all living bodies and souls 
that material death had no power over Him, but that 
He could overcome it, as He had in His life and 
teachings shown how to overcome spiritual death, by 
living without sin. Peter, perhaps, had this trait of 
Christ's character when he said, ■ 'there is none other 
name under heaven given among men whereby we 
must be saved/ ' 

It is only in lovingly keeping God's commandments 
that the believer can have a conscience void of offense 
toward God and man ; void of remorse, shame and 
fear which hath torment. This state of mind, spirit and 



SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION. 53 

heart, and its consequences, and circumstances, fulfills 
all those prophesies of the Old Testament declaring 
that God would make all things new. Rev. 21-17 
inclusive. 

John 1-4. "In him was life; and the life was the 
light of men." 

11-27. "And whosoever liveth and believeth in 
me, shall never die." 

1 John 5-12. "He that hath the Son hath life ; and 
he that hath not the Son, hath not life." 

John 5-24. "Verily, Verily I say unto you, he 
that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent 
me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into con- 
demnation: but is passed from death unto life." 

1 John 5—1 1. "And this is the reward that God 
hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." 

These texts declare life and death to be exercises of 
soul and spirit while in a living body. 

John 8-12. "Then spake Jesus unto them, saying, 
I am the light of the world : he that followeth me 
shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of 
life." 

12-25. "He that loveth his life shall lose it; and 
he that hateth his life in this world, shall keep it unto 
life eternal." 

Darkness means ignorance of right and good, and 
the experiencing of misery, and light and life means 
the knowledge of right and good, with loving obedi- 
ence in the experiencing of all blessings. 

As the sun is the light of the material world, so 



54 SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION. 

Christ is the light of the mind, or spiritual world. 

Romans 6-4. " Therefore we are buried with him 
by baptism into death : that like as Christ was raised 
up from the dead, by the glory of the Father, even so 
we also should walk in newness of life. 9 ' 

5. "For if we have been planted together in the 
likness of his death, we shall also be in the likeness of 
his resurrection.' ' 

Eph. 2-5. u Even when we were dead in sins hath 
quickened us together with Christ, (by grace are ye 
saved ;)" 

6. "And hath raised us up together, and made 
us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." 

Col. 3-1. "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek 
those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on 
the right hand of God." 

Above means the will of God as revealed in the life 
and teachings of Jesus Christ, and what was made 
mainifest on the day of penticost. 

As in Job 27-18. "For the price of wisdom is 
above rubies." See Prov. 3-15; 8-1 1; 20-15; 31-10. 

Wisdom and virtue are said to be above, as folly, 
wickedness and misery are said to be below. 

As the right hand is the one most used for skill, or 
cunning, and executive power and honor. As to 
Christ is attributed the great work of salvation of 
man, for this He takes the place nearest the Father. 

1 Cor. 3-21. "Therefore let no man glory in 
men : for all things are yours. " 

22. "Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or 



SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION, 55 

the world, or life, or' death, or things present, or 

things to come; all are yours." 

23. "And ye are Christ's and Christ is God's." 
Romans 14-7. "For none of us liveth to himself, 

and no man dieth to himself." 

8. " For whether we live, we live unto the Lord, 
and whether we die, we die unto the Lord, whether 
we live, therefore, or die, we are the Lord's." 

9. " For to this end Christ both died and rose, 
and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead 
and the living." 

Christ could not die a spiritual death, as he never 
sinned, His was a material, or bodily death, so His 
reviving was bodily, but the sinner, or man, is revived, 
or quickned, or raised in soul and spirit from ignorance 
to knowledge,- from w r rong to right, from evil to good, 
from hate to love, from spiritual death to spiritual life, 
from taking pleasure in the mortification of others to 
rejoicing in others hapiness. 

2 Cor. 4— 11. "For we which live are always deliv- 
ered unto death for Jesus sake, that also the life of 
Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh." 

It is the expressions of Paul that the believer's suf- 
ferings for Christ's sake, he speaks of as death, but 
Christ says that under such circumstances they should 
rejoice and be exceeding glad. There gladness arises 
from the fact that they are not guilty, and Christ's 
death, or life, cannot save the believer from this kind 
of death. The cause of it is not in himself, he cannot 
remove it, but the incorrigible unrepentant sinner, 



56 SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION, 

in his guilt and misery, is determined in his envy of 
their happiness, that they shall be as miserable* as him- 
self. Christ can save the sinner from his misery, if 
he will forsake his sins and work righteousness. 
When this takes place in all sinners then this kind of 
dying in believers will come to an end. 

The reason Christ did not lay great stress on the 
resurrection of the body, was because in the beginn- 
ing it was declared to be dust, and to dust it should 
return, and there is no repeal or modification of this 
declaration in the Old Testament. We must conclude 
the bodily resurrection, so muth talked of and 
believed by the Jews, and I understand all other 
nations more or less, was one of the inventions of 
men, but if the body is to be raised, it must be the 
work of the Creator alone, for man has no knowledge 
or power of how to do to help in this work. But in 
his spiritual resurrection, or new birth, or quickning, 
or being raised from the death of sin and misery, the 
Old Testament and the New are full of instruction 
and commands to man to help himself by using all 
his powers of body, soul and spirit which he posseses ; 
which comes from the same source as the command- 
ments, to attain to that blessed state of wisdom, good- 
ness, righteousness and blessedness which is the end 
for which he was made. 

Paul in the 1 5 Chapter of 1 Corinthians, refers to 
different kinds of bodies, for the reason that the lifting 
up of man from sin and misery, to holiness and bless- 
edness would have the effect to light into a better 



SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION, 57 

state of living enjoyment, all other grades of animal 
life. By man's being changed from wrong to right 
he would use all his powers to help the brute creation 
to a higher state of good and enjoyment. 

So of the sun, moon and stars, each has its glory, 
according to its nature and use in God's system of 
this world's being. So the bodies celestial and ter- 
estial have a glory according to their nature and use. 
The celestial is the mind, or spirit of man. The 
natural body is that part of man which is seen, and is 
terrestial. The spiritual body is that part of man 
which is not seen, the soul faculties and attributes of 
mind and spirit, by which he becomes inteligent, wise 
and good. We must have, the natural body before 
we can have the spiritual. The natural senses and 
soul faculties are used as means to create the spiritual 
body, or charracter, which lives in the mind's of 
living beings from generation to generation. Abra- 
ham's charracter lives in all the minds and hearts of 
the saints from his day to this. In this way, Jesus 
Christ lived before Abraham. This is the way God 
is the God of the living and not of the dead. . 

The believers life is like God's, and therefore it can 
never die. The unbeliever never has this life, so he 
is out of the kingdom of God. God is not the God 
of dead sinners, unless it is to make them more dead. 
This dead mortal state puts on immortality, by being 
clothed with the righteousness of Jesus Christ, then 
is this sinful death swallowed up of victory, and the 
end for which man was made is accomplished. 



5 8 SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION, 

Romans 22. "For we know that the whole crea- 
tion groaneth and traveleth in pain together until 
now." 

"lam the resurrection and the life." In Jesus 
Christ, or the Mesiah, is now this "travel and pain" 
taken away, and the "mind of Christ" and the "spir- 
it of God" fills, the "swept and garnished" soul with 
joy, peace and gladness. This fulfills the promise in 
Isaiah 25-8. "He will swallow up death in victory; 
and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all 
faces." 

It has been said by learned divines, that what is 
universally believed and practised by mankind, must 
be implanted by the Creator in them, I think this can- 
not stand the test of true investigation. We might 
as well say, because sin has always been in man, there- 
fore the Creator made it. When the Creator finished 
Adam, in body and soul,' He pronounced him "very 
good." There was no sin about him. Now God 
made a place for him, where he would be at ease, and 
at liberty to exercise himself in all his corporal pow- 
ers, and in all his faculties of soul, as he was symbo- 
lized by trees and fruit. The tree of life is the same 
as spoken of in the last chapter of Revelations. The 
commandment in some of its phazes, or consequences, 
might not be any thing more than the suffering neces- 
sary to endure to attain good, as we now do under 
Christ. The consequent suffering pronounced on Eve, 
in mothernood, might not be sin, although it is sharp 
pains and sufferings which is the same nature as the 



SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION. 59 

punishment for sin. In this sense she died, as Paul 
said he "died daily." Thus Adam and Eve chose to 
exercise their animal powers, and they had to take 
the consequences, which might not be anything more 
than God declared, when He said they should be 
fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. 

At the time Adam and Eve went into the garden 
it was all good, the evil depended on the use of the 
good, in which God had created them. To exercise 
themselves in obedience to the commandment which 
was spiritual, would be getting good by good, or in 
good, which was the tree of life; and here was lodged 
the right to command, to instruct and save these spir- 
itual unseen powers of mind. These exercised in 
loving obedience, would grow more and more in to 
wisdom, by their experience would increase in knowl- 
edge, and thus acquire in kind the same attributes of 
mind, or spirit, as their Creator. 

This is the straight and narrow way, in which there 
is no death. But man had an earthly, or material, 
nature, which was first in time and growth, and not 
knowing but that hope, fear, desire and imagination 
had as good right to direct, as the spiritual, so man 
followed the emotions of his animal nature, and learn- 
ed by his experience evil, as well as good. But the 
evil would not destroy the good, unless he continued 
on in obedience and love to his carnal mind, and thus 
live out the fleshly life, and return to dust, which is 
only the result of his own choice. 

In the parable in Luke 14-12, Christ is teaching 



60 SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION. 

generosity, humility and kindness, in ones making a 
feast for the entertainment of others. And they 
should not be his rich neighbors, but the poor, the 
blind, the maimed, the lame, for these could not re- 
turn the compliment, or reward, but he should be 
recompensed at the resurrection of the just. 

Peter, Steven and Ananias speak of Christ as the 
Just. Christ here means to teach the same, as when 
He said, it was more blessed to give than to receive. 

This resurrection of the just takes place when all 
souls and spirits of men shall apprehend the true spir- 
itual meaning of Christ's teachings. 

It is not intended, in quoting these texts of scrip- 
tures, to ignore, or deny any text of scripture which 
teaches the resurrection of the body. But being ful- 
ly persuaded, in my own mind, that many passages, 
which are used to prove a bodily resurrection, are 
perverted from their right use, I have endeavored to 
make plain the spiritual, or Christ's, meaning of texts, 
that man may rise, or grow, from flesh to spirit, from 
evil to good, from misery to blessedness. 

It appears truthful to me to believe that Adam's 
bodily death was a fact before he sinned, as afterwards 
there are times when it is more appropriate to tell 
some truths. 

Adam and Eve in the first Chapter, of Genesis are 
instructed to be fruitful, and multiply and replenish 
the earth. The fruitfulness of Eve might have been 
about the same before her disobedience as afterwards. 
But the Creator knew the right time to inform her. 



SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION, 6t 

We have reason to believe that Adam's and Eve's 
sin in the garden, was nothing in comparison to the 
sin of Cain, or to the sin of men and women at the 
time that Noah built the ark. Or the sins that Paul 
enumerates in the catalogue of sins of his day. And 
to-day witnesses to the same state of things. But 
whatever we may speculate about the race in the be- 
ginning, the end is, in Jesus Christ, made more blessed 
than in the beginning ; by His turning evil into good 
and by making it the privilege of every one of the 
race, that will put off Adam and put on Christ, to 
turn their fleshly sufferings into joy, because of the 
good and blessedness that shall come by, or through 
it. "All things shall work for good to them that 
love God." 



Explanations of the 15th Chapter of 1st Cor. 

The Chapter begins with a declaration of the gos- 
pel, which Paul had some time before preached to 
them, which was the gospel by which they were 
s aved. Saved from shame, and fear and remorse of 
conscience, which is the state of mind of every trans 
gressor. In this chapier Adam is the sample. From 
the 1st to the 1 ith verse is to prove, by many witness- 
es, who had seen Him with their bodily eyes, that 
Christ was raised from the death of the body. His 
ressurrection was a type, or sample, of the sinners 
spiritual resurrection, or quickening. He was raised 
temporally, the sinner is raised spiritually, renewed in 



62 SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION, 

mind, or made a new creature. Christ could not be 
raised spiritually, for he "knew no sin." 

From the 12th to the 19th verse inclusive, is further 
statements to confirm previous declarations, that 
Christ experienced a resurrection, which evidenced 
His power to raise dead sinners. 

The 19th verse refers to the natural, or carnal life. 
Which we see exemplified in some professers of relig- 
ion in our time, who make confession by mouth, but 
in works deny him. 

The 2 1 st verse refers to Adam, by whom came 
death, referring to the death God threatened him with 
if he should eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowl- 
edge of good and evil. 

This act of Adam did not destroy the good in 
which God had made him, but added evil with it. 

The good in man, by the help of God in Jesus 
Christ, enables him to bring good out of evil, (sensu- 
al evil) and man is thus saved from evil as a punish- 
ment, if not as a consequence. As Eve could endure 
the pains of child-bearing, for the good set before her, 
in raising up a body, in which could dwell the spirit 
"of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead." — Wit- 
ness Abel. 

This is the man (Adam) by which came death, or 
evil, or flesh. I do not see any mistery in this. It 
is plain that the Creator brought good into the world, 
and man, by the exercise of this good, in opposition 
to God's spiritual command, brought in evil, or sin; 
Adam acting in obedience to the flesh, or sensual, in- 



SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION. 63 

stead of the spirit which the commandment represent- 
ed. By the man, Christ jesus, came spiritual life by 
His teachings and commandments, restoring to the 
true believer the joy, and peace and love which comes 
to the loving obedient soul. 

Christ, as a man, was under the Mosaic law, as any 
other man, hence he was under it as it was then read 
and understood, and His spiritual reading was so dif- 
ferent from the letter that it made Him a transgresor 
worthy of death, bodily. His bodil} T resurrection is a 
type, or assurance, of the spiritual resurrection of 
miserable souls. 

The 22d verse refers to the spiritual, or mind, death 
of Adam. So in Christ all are made alive spiritually. 
Bodily death is not referred to in this verse. 

The 23d verse refers to time, or degree, or in respect 
to Christ, ''Christ the first fruits/' meaning the first 
who kept the law of Moses, and the law of love and 
of everlasting righteousness. The coming in this 
verse is spiritual, when the sinner accepts of Christ 
by repentence, and brings forth fruits mete for re- 
pentance. 

The 24th verse is God's finished work, to save man 
from the miserable state of body and soul which he 
has brought on himself by exercises of his own will, 
contrary to his Creator's. God in Christ will conquer 
all powers. 

26. Death spoken of in this verse is the same God 
threatened Adam with, which is the destruction of 
his soul happiness. This death was destroyed on the 



64 SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION. 

day of penticost, when the -holy spirit enlightened the 
minds of the converted souls, making them to under- 
stand the scriptures as Christ did ; bringing them into 
loving obedience to their teachings. 

31. His dying daily unto sin and suffering for 
Christ's sake, were cause for great joy. 

The 33d verse is a warning against deception. 

The 34th verse is an exhortation to awake to right- 
eousness. The unsaved state is called a state of sleep. 
It is a shame to be without the knowledge of God. 

From the 25 th to the 41st is illustrations enumerat- 
ing animals, planets, and stars celestial and terestial. 
To all of these different things there is a character or 
invisible body seen or unseen, which has a glory ac- 
cording to its nature, or being, or use. 

From the actions of man in body, soul and spirit, 
there is a spiritual body created, which is invisible, 
which attains to every person, and is known to minds 
in living bodies of men, as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob 
are known to the mind of God. As Christ speaks of 
God as being the God of the living and not of the 
dead, meaning of dead bodies and dead sinners ; thus 
saints have this living spiritual character, or body 
which grows out of or by means of that carnal fleshly 
nature which we all have in the beginning. 

The 42d verse, shows the natural state and calls it 
corruption, but the spiritual state is incorruption. 

The 43d verse shows the same. Our fleshly begin- 
ings are in dishonor and weakness, our spiritual state 
is in glory and power. 



SPIRITUAL -RESURRECTION. 6$ 

44th. The natural body, which is seen, and spiritual 
body, which is not seen. 

The 45 th verse speaks of the soul of the first Adam 
and the last Adam, a quickening spirit. 

46th This verse is plain and decisive of the spirit- 
ual resurrection. For we know as well now as Eve 
did, that there must be a natural, or material body 
before there can be a spiritual, or invisible body. 
Paul's spiritual body was miraculous, Samuel's, John's 
and Timothy's natural, by teachings, example and 
precept. 

The 47th verse speaks of our beginnings as earthly, 
and our continuing in it, and of our spirirual, as 
heavenly. 

The 48th, speaks cf the same with little variation. 

The 49th verse shows we cannot have the heavenly, 
until we have the earthly. 

The 50th verse shows that flesh and blood cannot 
inherit the kingdom of God ; that is, material things 
do not belong to God's kingdom under Christ, as they 
did under Moses. Under Moses sin was pardoned 
by the sheding of natu-ial blood ; under Christ sin is 
forgiven on forsaking sin. We cannot be forgiven 
and hold on to our sin. 

Verses 5 1st and 5 2d seem to be a word of comfort, as 
In 1 Thes. 4-16. 

Verses 53 and 54 declare the change from corrupt- 
ible to incorruptible, or from sin to holiness, from hat- 
red to love. The mortal must put on inmortality. 
This is only another way to speak of a change of 



66 SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION, 

heart, or being made new creatures in Christ Jesus, 
The Adam death is cast out and destroyed by the 
second Adam, which fills the soul with all wisdom 
and blessedness. In Isaiah is the promise Paul here 
quotes, which shows that Paul understood that this 
promise was fulfilled in the believer's accepting this 
gospel way of deliverance from sin and misery, under 
which mankind were now groaning. Christ in one place 
abolishes death, in this place he gains a victory and 
vanquishes the enemy, and all tears are wiped away 
from all faces, meaning tears of contrition for past 
sin. It does not mean tears of affection, or for joy. 

Verse 55th declares a victory over the grave, or hell. 
Death hath no sting for the believer in Jesus, for he is 
not under the law, but under grace. 

56. By the lav/ we have the knowledge of sin, 
which condemns us for we have broken it. In Christ 
we keep the law of love, which enables us to keep the 
law of works, which are required to glorify God, and 
to do good to others and ourselves. 

57th. And all this is gained through the righteous- 
ness of Jesus Christ. If we adopt His righteousness 
as our own and do good as He did, for we must re- 
member that man began sin and wrong, and it will be 
ended when man will cease to do evil, and learn to do 
well. 

The 58th verse is an exhortation in view of this 
long argument about the gospel of Jesus Christ, which 
brings life and immortality to light, destroys death 
and the grave, or hell, and fills the soul with joy and 



SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION. 6/ 

gladness, and creates that heart of wisdom, in knowl- 
edge, understanding and judgment to rule the soul 
and body into all good and blessedness, which is 
promised in Isaiah, that he would put his spirit in 
them, and write his law on their hearts. 

In the 5 th chapter of Romans, also the 6th, is the 
same doctrine or teaching, that salvation is in the soul 
and spirit, or mind which is in a living body. 

In 4th verse of the 6th Chapter the believer is 
buried with Christ in baptism, by which is represented 
the death of sin and misery of tile soul, and as Christ 
was raised up to bodily life by the glory of the Father, 
so by this same power, or glory of Him who raised 
up Christ, we are made to walk in newness of life, or 
experience the new birth, or are raised up to a life of 
spiritual, or mind, righteousness and blessedness. 
This is gospel, or good news to the sin sick soul, 
and is the end for which man was made, because it 
manifests Godliness in the, flesh, or mind and spirit, of 
man, which are things not seen, are manifested 
through, or by the corporeal, or material part of man, 
which are things seen. 

This way of reading the scriptures leaves the first 
principles of Christ, and goes' on to perfection. 
Hebrews 6-2. 

The scriptures were made for man, and not man for 
the scriptures. Those truths and facts which in the 
beginning of our mind, or spirit, are useful are left 
behind as we grow in knowledge and understanding 
of what makes for our best good for body, soul and 



68 SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION, 

spirit, by which we are enabled to discern between 
right and wrong. 

I Cor. 6-14. "And God both raised up the Lord, 
and will also raise up us by his own power/' 

In this verse Christ's bodily resurrection is referred 
to, and man's as being raised up above the sins enu- 
merated in verses 9 and 10, and their attendant 
miseries. 

Isaiah 26-19. "Thy dead men shall live, with my 
dead body shall they arise." 

Ezk. 37-14. "And shall put my spirit within you, 
and ye shall live. And I shall place you in your land." 

The blessed state of mind and heart is represented 
by the promised land, and holy temple and city. 

The Jews in their captivity and transgressions are 
compared to being in their graves, and God says he 
will bring them out of their graves; meaning they 
shall love and obey all His commandments. This 
similitude of graves Christ uses in John 5-28, 29. 
"Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming in the 
which all that are in graves shall hear his voice. 
And shall come forth; they that have done good unto 
the resurrection of life; and the that have done evil 
to the resurrection of damnation." 

This text was fulfilled at the day of penticost, when 
those who believed were filled with gladness, and 
those who disbelieved were filled with anguish of soul, 
even to the gnashing of teeth in the case of Stephen. 
This gnashing of teeth is often used in the Old Testa- 
ment to express malicious hatred to others, in this 



SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION. 69 

present world, and all that are used in the New Tes- 
tament have the same meaning. 

Heb. n-35. " Women received their head raised 
to life again: and others w T ere tortured, not accepting 
deliverance ; that they may receive a better resurrec- 
tion." 

All these endured these sufferings in hope and faith, 
received not the promises. 

The 40th verse shows Paul connects the sufferings 
of the saints under Moses, as being educated by the 
saints under Christ, the teachings of Christ, that be- 
lievers under sufferings, in a right way, eventuated in 
great gladness, which is one phaze of the resurrection. 
In the deliverance of suffering mothers, the joy set be- 
fore them of having a body in which they may be in- 
strumental in forming the spirit of God, by enabling 
it to have the mind of Christ through his words which 
are, 4< spirit and life." 

Heb. 3-14. "We know we have passed from 
death unto life, because we love the brethren." 

John 5—28, 29. This text has the same meaning as 
where Christ speaks of all coming forth from their 
graves, some to the resurrection of life, and others to 
the resurrection of damnation. The same idea, or 
truth is in the valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 34th 
Chapter. 

Col. 2-12. "Buried with him in baptism, wherein 
also ye are risen with him, through the faith of the 
operation of God." 



JO SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION. 

The 13th verse: ''Hath he quickened together 
with him, having forgive you all trespasses/' 

This is one of the many ways of spiritual resurrec- 
tion, or being made new creatures in Christ Jesus. 

Phil. 3-10. "That I may know him, and the 
power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his 
sufferings, being made conformable to his death.' ' 

This is teaching the spiritual resurrection, or the 
change of wrong to right, or from evil to good. It is 
a progressive work. 

The 2 1 st verse speaks of the body being glorified 
by trtis holy blessed state of mind. The same idea 
or truth is taught in the 54th verse of the 15 Chapter 
of 1 Corinthians. 

Eph. 4-23, 24, " And be renewed in the spirit of 
your mind. And that you put on the new man which 
after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." 

This is what man was made for, to manifest godli- 
ness. And the bodily part of us cannot do it. It is 
only the means, or instrument, by which the truths, 
commandments and teachings of the Scriptures are 
acquired, to form the knowledge, understanding and 
judgment, in which dwells the spirit of God, to direct 
the soul exercises and the bodily action into loving 
obedience and blessedness. "All scripture is given 
by inspiration, that the man of God may be thor- 
oughly furnished to every good word and work." 

2 Cor. 4-1 1. "For we which live are alway deliv- 
ed unto death for Jesus sake, that the life also of Jes- 
us might be manifest in our mortal flesh." 



SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION. 7 1 

As the spiritual death is in the living body, (for the 
miserable state of mind Adam experienced was the 
death God threatened him), so the raising up to life, 
or blessedness, must be in the living body. And this 
is what Christ came into the world for, to enable us 
to keep His commandments, which would glorify Him 
and save our own souls. 

The 14th verse speaks of God raising up the believ- 
er by Jesus. This refers to the believer's forsaking 
his sins and following on to know the Lord. 

1 Cor. 6-14. "And God hath both raised up the 
Lord, and also will raise up us by his own power/ ' 

This verse is in the midst of exhortations, and re- 
proofs and corrections in righteous use of the bodily 
parts and members, that it may be a holy temple for 
the indwelling of His holy spirit. 



CHAPTER V, 

JUDGES AND JUDGED. 

Daniel i-io, 13, 14, 27, 18. Christ in His person 
as He lived on earth was the son of man. The Christ 
power and goodness, as manifested in the first crea- 
tion, also in Abraham and in and by, or through, 
Moses and the prophets, is the ancient of days. 

The words of the law and the prophets, judge the 
disobedient to punishment and the obedient to life. 
The kingdom and dominion which was seen by the un- 
derstanding of Daniel, was the same that Christ came 
to set up in the minds and hearts of believers, which 
madeit a spiritual kingdom, or a kingdom in the minds 
of men to direct them into all right, good and blessed- 
ness of body, soul and spirit. This being the case 
with each one, the saints would possess the kingdom 
under the whole heaven. All judgment belongs to the 
righteous; the wicked have no right to judge them- 
selves Or the righteous. 

The texts in Ezekiel declare the judgment to be 
God's. This is to declare that all true and right judg- 
ment is of, or from Him. Not from, or by sin, or 
the world, the flesh, or the devil, and God's judgment, 



JUDGES AND JUDGED. 73 

or decisions of what is right in action of body, or 
what is right exercise of soul, mind and spirit, is man- 
ifested by, or through, the saints, as in the example 
and teachings of Jesus Christ, while He was in the 
flesh, and the bodies of saints are to finish and carry 
on the Godly manifestations in the flesh, in the ab- 
sence of Christ's body. In this way Christ's spirit 
lives in the flesh through all generations of believers, 
and fulfills the original intention of connecting mind 
with matter, or of manifesting the invisible things of 
mind and spirit, by, or through, the organized func- 
tions of the material body. The first exercise of the 
senses is in our food for the body. The sense of eat- 
ing cannot determine the right kind, quantity, or qual- 
ity of the food. This must be done by the mind, or 
spirit (God is spirit) of those that have lived before 
us, and have had experience in righteousness of all 
the Creator's, Preserver's and Redeemer's instructions, 
revelations and examples in all things pertaining to 
body, soul and spirit. 

I Cor. 10-31. ''Whether therefore ye eat, or 

drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of 
God." 

If we eat to make the body healthy arid strong that 

it may be in the best possible condition for the in- 
dwelling of the true and holy spirit. That the believ- 
er may fulfill the requirements of the word, of being 
God's house, His building, His temple, His crown, 

His glory, His people. In this way is all things the 
believers, and believers are Christ's, and Christ is 
God's. 1 Cor. 3-23. 



74 JUDGES AND JUDGED. 

Proverbs, Jeremiah, 2 Chronicles and Leviticus 
show that the Lord gave the Judges the right to judge 
righteously between men and their neighbors. Every 
righteous person must judge themselves in all things 
pertaining to right and wrong. The true and right 
knowledge gives a correct understanding of what is 
good and blessed in things pertaining to invisible, or 
visible, or sensual, which are things unseen, or seen. 

Job 29-1.4. " I put on righteousness and it clothed 
me my judgment was as a robe and a diadem/' 

Luke 22-29, 3°- ''That ye may eat and drink at 
my table in mv kingdom, and sit on thrones judging 
the twelve tribes of Isreal. And I appoint unto you 
a kingdom as my Father has appointed unto me." 

Believers cannot escape the responsibility of judg- 
ing themselves, and as all believers are one in Christ 
Jesus they are capable of judging one another only in 
righteousness. As believers are in need hourly, and 
all the time, to judge between right and wrong, it is 
by this Godly knowledge, and the true and right facts, 
that all exercises of soul, or spirit, or bodily actions, 
are rightly decided, and this is the Christ way to save 
from sin and misery. It will save the drunkard, the 
glutton, the thief and murder, the covetous anger, 
hatred and selfishness, and thus the believer comes off 
conquerer over sin, the flesh and the devil. 

Deut. 16-18. Judges, officers shaltthou make thee 
in all thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee 
through thy tribes : and they shall judge the people 
with just judgment." 



JUDGES AND JUDGED. 75 

The Christ power, wisdom and goodness in each 
believer keeps them in all . righteousness, and they 
have no use for laws or courts, which are for the 
disobedient. 

Numbers 11-29. "And Moses said unto him, en- 
viest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord's 
people were prophets and that the Lord would put 
his spirit on them/' 

1 Timothy 1-9. Romans 10-4. Gallations 5-23. 
Hebrews 10-16. Isaiah 51-7. 

The spirit of God, the mind of Christ in the believ- 
er includes all the law of God, which is so often 
promised in the Old Testament, and makes the believ- 
er's mind as a court to judge all things in righteous- 
ness. And as all sin and wrong began in and by man, 
so would all sin and wrong be put away by man, as in 
the case of Christ in the flesh and of Christ's spirit in 
the believers on the day of penticost. 

1 Kings 3-12, 28. Matthew 12-35. Psalm 37-6, 
30. 31 and 37; 106-3; 119-66, 121 and 149; 149-9. 

These texts and others show that man was created 
to be, in his body and soul, the means to acquire in 
his spirit the knowledge of truth and right, that he 
might "know the knowledge of the most High;" that 
he might do justice and judgment to himself and all 
other creatures and things, it being God's chosen way 
to display Himself. 

God's wisdom is fitted for man, and man is in exer- 
cising all his faculties of soul and spirit in obedience to 
God's commandments, fulfills hiswill and the end for 



^6 JUDGES AND JUDGED. 

which man was made. Christ in the flesh is the son 
of man, and sins against him can be forgiven. He 
prayed his Father to forgive them, adding a reason. 
Peter also exhorted his hearers to repent and be 
baptized, in the name of Jesus, for the remission of 
their sins, and ye shall receive the holy spirit. 
These were all sins of men against Christ in the 
flesh, and sins of believers aganst believers in the 
flesh can be forgiven, but sins against the spirit, as in 
the case Ananias and Sapphria, have no forgivness* 
The remorse of conscience was so great and sudden 
that it took away their bodily life. Their spiritual 
death, which was the loss of their soul, or mind, hap- 
piness at this time destroyed the house, the temple 
in which it dwelt. Achan was an instance, and the 
punishment of the Israelites at Mount Sinai. The 
man who gathered sticks on the Sabbath. These 
disobeyed immediately on the giving of the command, 
while the spirit, as well as the letter of the command 
was in their minds, or spirits. Adam was the same, 
and received his punishment immediately on transgres- 
sion, showing itself in his shame andfear of his maker 
and redeemer. 

The text in Isaiah and Jeremiah show the judg- 
ment to be the Lord's, and that man must exercise his 
judgment in equity and mercy in all his dealings 
with his fellow men. 

Isaiah 59, shows that wickedness is the cause that 
there is no judgment. Righteousness could not 
enter and the Lord was displeased that there was no 



JUDGES AND JUDGED. J J 

judgment. This judgment could not be exercised 
by man without knowledge of God's commandments 
and loving obedience to them. And all that shall see 
them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed 
that the Lord hath blessed. 

Malachi 3-1. The Lord asks, is it not for you to 
know judgment. God's people are required to know 
and do righteous judgment. This is what makes 
them in His likeness, and forms them a charracter 
which God recognizes as living before Him and being 
renewed in the holy lives of all believers afterwards, 
as the life and charracter of Washington, as President 
of American people, in the true spirit and meaning of 
the letter and principles of the United States of Amer- 
ica, is renewed and lived over in all the Presidents 
since. 

The Godly Government of nations or individuals, 
which the Creator intended should be manifested 
through, or by man is eternal, or as lasting as man is 
when in righteousness, and this living charracter, or 
spirit, of man will exhist and live in all after genera- 
tions, whether the individual bodies that turn to dust 
do or not. 

Amos 5-7, 15, 24. These texts show that judg- 
ment is the attribute of mind or spirit which is most 
depended on, whether in rulers, or private persons, to 
do right and good in exercises of soul, or spirit, or 
actions of body. The reason is because that all the 
senses, the affections, feelings, passions, hopes, fears, 
imagination, knowledge and understanding does right- 



?8 JUDGES AND JUDGED. 

\y each in its proper way and sphere, acts its part in 
helping the judgment to its righteous, blessed con- 
clusion, or decision. This way (is Christ's) leaves no 
antagonisms in the soul, or spirit, because each quality 
of mind works for the end, which is the judgment, 
and all parts of body, soul or spirit acquieses in this 
last highest attribute in the mind of man. This shows 
that man cannot attain to his greatest and highest 
good and blessedness without due respect to the ma- 
terial as well as the spiritual, to the natural as well as 
the revealed. Inteligent reason must not be subject- 
ed to intuition. Judgment must not be subjected to 
desires. This true and right waj r to judgment which 
brings good and blessedness and not evil, is as much 
God's judgment as though he declared it by a voice, 
or by thunder and lightning. 

Amos 6-12. " Shall horses run upon the rocks; 
will one plough there with oxen, for you have turned 
judgment into gall and the fruits of righteousness into 
hemlock." 

This text shows the ability of man. God accuses 
him of turning good into evil. If he can do this, can 
he not with the same ability turn evil into good. 
God says, "come and let us reason together." "Turn 
ye, for why will ye die." "Come unto me all ye 
that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you 
rest." 

As ploughing on a rock will bring no good, so man 
using his God given faculties for evil and wrong will 
bring him no righteous blessedness. 



JUDGES AND JUDGED. 79 

Malachi 3-8, "Truly I am full of power by the 
Lord and judgment and of might to declare unto 
Jacob his transgression and to Isreal his sin." 

In this verse is judgment with the spirit of the 
Lord spoken of as power and might in man, to enable 
him to discharge the most daring duties towards his 
fellow men. 

Matthew 23-23. In this verse Christ complains of 
His hearers omitting judgment and attending to forms 
and material things, to the great detriment of the 
spiritual good of the people. God requires spiritual 
work to make acceptable the material work. 

Luke 12-57. " Yea and why even of yourselves 
judge ye not what is right. 

Christ tells the Jews they would judge the signs 
iu the clouds with respect to the weather, then asks 
why they could not judge the connection of his teach- 
ings with Moses and the prophets. We are evidently 
taught by this that it is good and Christ like for each 
believer to know and understand what part each func- 
tion of body, and faculty of soul and spirit has to do 
in working out that loving obedience to Christ's teach- 
ings, without which man cannot attain to eternal life. 

John 7-24. "Judge not according to the appear- 
ance, but judge righteous judgment." 

The righteous judgment in this text was the heal- 
ing of diseased persons on the Sabbath. This was a 
spiritual work. Christ did it by the power of a word, 
the word being the medium, or way, or conveyance of 
Christ's mind, or spirit, to those that heard. Christ's 



80 JUDGES AND JUDGED. 

salvation extends to bodies, as well as to souls, the 
material work being more to convince men that He 
is God, and the teacher of the way, the truth and the 
life of repentant sinners. This Christ power, or spir- 
it, is the only way for believers to attain to the wis- 
dom, to enable them to judge righteous judgment. 
This state of mind and heart is the privilege of all 
believers, as well as of magistrates and rulers. 

8-15. " Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. 
Christ came in the flesh to save men, but Christ's 
word in the end will judge men to blessedness if lov- 
ed and obeyed, or if hated and disobeyed will judge 
them to misery. We must walk in the spirit, not 
after the flesh. Romans 8-4. 

1 Cor. 6-2. "Do ye not know that the saints 
shall judge the world ? and if the world shall be judg- 
ed by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest 
matters. " 

The judgment here referred to is that spiritual pow- 
er of the mind, or spirit, which exists in consequence 
of acquiring the knowledge of God and Christ, and 
His way, which gives power to discern between right 
and wrong, and to choose the right and obey it in all 
things pertaining to ourselves and others. This true 
and equal judgment is the same as God's judgment, 
which was from the beginning established for the good 
of man, and each individual is to use it to judge his 
own exercises of feelings and passions, to have them 
conform to right and good of soul and spirit, which is 
the world to come. Here lies the pow r er of the saints, 



JUDGES AND JUDGED, 8 1 

which Paul says shall judge the world, which is the 
senses, passion, appetite, lusts, envyings, strifes, lying 
and every evil act of body, or soul. The world of in- 
telligence and good does always judge the world of 
ignorance and evil. No one can be a saint without 
accepting this heavenly power to rule the earthly. 

i Cor. 3. "Know ye not that ye shall judge 
angels." 

Righteous judgment is the same in God or man, 
That which will judge the lesser things will judge the 
greater. Spiritual beings, whether in the flesh or out 
of the flesh, are governed by the same attributes of 
mind and spirit. The goodness, righteousness and 
wisdom is the same in character, or kind, from the 
Creator and Redeemer down to the lowest, loving, 
obedient believer. 

This is the glory, power and blessedness of the 
saints, that they will judge all evil and wrong out of 
there own souls, and help others to do the same. 
And when all will conform to this way, sin and misery 
will find no place but in the bottomless pit. Then 
will Christ see the travail of his soul and be satisfied. 

Rev. 21, will be fulfilled by this holy state of mind 
and spirit, and blessed state of the body. The New 
Jerusalem will take in matter as well as mind. This 
blessed state will fulfill all the promises in the Old 
Testament, of making all things new. The tabernacle 
of God will be with men. He that overcometh shall 
inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall 
be my son. All tears shall be wiped away, because 



82 PROPHECIES FULFILLED. 

all sin and misery is done away. This new and bless- 
ed state of being would fulfill all the declarations and 
promises respecting the quickening and raising of man 
from hell, the grave and the prison house and give 
him the rest, peace, joy and blessedness which ever 
was and ever will be the privilege of the truly intelli- 
gent, loving and obedient believer in Jesus Christ the 
Savior. And there will be no difference in blessed- 
ness, whether it is in an individual, or a community 
of individuals, 



CHAPTER VI. 



PROPHECIES FULFILLED. 



Isaiah 9-1. ' 'Afterwards did most greviously af- 
flict her by the way of the sea beyond Jordan, Gal- 
lilee of the Gentiles." 

2. "The people that have walked in darkness 
have seen a great light, they that dwell in the land of 
the shadow of death upon them hath the light 
shined." 

Matthew 4-13. These texts were fulfilled by Jesus 
dwelling in Capernium. 



PROPHECIES FULFILLED. 83 

17. "From that time Jesus began to preach and 
to say, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." 

As repentence is soul and spirit work, we do con- 
clude, that as repentance is righteous mind work, the 
kingdom of heaven is in the soul, mind and spirit, 
thus making Christ a spiritual king, or king of spirits. 
Christ's interpretation of the sixth commandment, 
shows that righteousness, or sin, is in trie heart, or 
spirit, or mind, therefore his kingdom is not in materi- 
al, or bodily actions, but in the mind work. 

1 Cor. 6-17, 18. "But he that is joined to the 

Lord is one spirit." 

Math. 2-18, Fulfills in the new, what was declared 

in Jerim. 3 1— 1 5, Rachel weeping for her children re- 
fused to be comforted. 

In Judges 13-5, is a declaration concerning Samp- 
son, he should be a Nazerite unto God. So in Math- 
ew 2-33 it declares Christ to be a Nazarene. A 
temperate Godly man. Christ shall possess all the 
good qualities of all the good and devoted men of 
God from the begining. 

Isaiah 40-3. "The voice of one crying in the 
wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make 
strait in the desert a high way for our God." 

Mathew 3-3, fulfills the above texts in the preaching 
of John the Baptist in his teaching the new way of 
salvation by repentance, or change of mind from hat- 
red to love, from ignorence to knowledge, from sin to 
holiness, from disobeying God's commandments to 
lovingly obeying all His commandments and precepts, 
as explained and taught by Jesus Christ. 



84 PROPHECIES FULFILLED. 

Isaiah 7-14. "Therefore the Lord himself shall 
give you a sign, behold a virgin shall conceive and 
bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanual." 
In Chapter 9-6, the promise is repeated. This prom- 
ise or prophecy is fulfilled in the birth of Jesus. 

Math. 1-2 1. "And she shall bring forth a son, 
and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for He shall save 
his people from their sins." 

There was the Christ power or the spiritual power 
of God in the commandment given to Adam, which 
would have kept him from sin if he had obeyed ; so 
we are all kept from sin if we live in obedience to all 
the requirements of God, as given to us by Jesus 
Christ the Immanuel— being God with us—and all 
men are made for this end ; to manifest the attribute, 
or mind, or spirit, which we understand belong to 
God, and our animal qualities of mind, to be used 
for the purpose of attaining the knowledge and un- 
derstanding by which we shall be able to know 
God's commandments, and in loving obedience to 
them we shall attain to that saving wisdom which 
will save us in all trials and temptations, as it saved 
Jesus Christ in His trials and temptations, by the flesh 
and the devil. 

The charracter which Christ acquired whilst living 
among men, by His holy way of living, and His right- 
eous teachings, when believers put on this holiness as 
a garment, then are other prophecies fulfilled which 
told of men and women that should be sons and 
daughters of the Lord God Almighty. 



PROPHECIES FULFILLED. 85 

Romans 15-8. "Now I say that Jesus Christ was a 
minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to 
confirm the promises made unto the fathers," 

Mica 5-2. "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, 
though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, 
yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to 
be ruler in Isreal, whose goings forth have been from 
of old, from everlasting. 

This is the God or Christ power and goodness mani- 
fested to, in, and through Adam, Noah, Moses, Abra- 
ham, and all the saints and prophets, and was perfect- 
ed in Jesus, and the day of penticost, or spiritual 
manifestations, for what all previous fleshly sensible 
manifestations were to open the way for the spiritual. 
Hence God has finished his work in making man in 
his physical and spiritual nature, and if he cannot be 
good and blessed under such finishing he must remain 
in sin and misery to the end. 

Rev. 22-11. "He that is unjust, let him be unjust 

still, and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he 

that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that 

is holy, let him be holy still." 

This text is being fulfilled in individuals and in 

christian nations, and will be more plainly seen as 
holiness is perfected in saints or believers, and sin and 
misery is perfected in transgressions. 

Math. 2-56. "And they said unto him in Bethle- 
hem of Judea, for thus it is writen by the prophet, 
And thou Bethlehem of Judea art not the least among 
the princes of Judea, for out of thee shall come a 
Governor that shall rule my people Israel." 



86 PROPHECIES FULFILLED. 

This text is in Micah 5-2. 

Romans 1 5-4 ' ' For whatsoever things were writ- 
ten afore time, were writen for our learning, that we 
through patience and comfort of the spirit might have 
hope." 

The following verses to the 8th, are descriptive of 
the workings of the fulfilling of the promises in the 
lives of the believers this side the grave. 

The 10, 11 and 12 are more quotations of promises 
of the fathers of blessings to the Gentiles, that they 
might glorify God for his mercy, also filling their own 
souls with joy, and gladness and righteousness, as des- 
cribed in the 12th Chapter. 

16-25. "Now to him that is of power to stablish 
you according to my gospel, and the preaching of 
Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mys- 
tery, which was kept secret since the world began." 

16-26. "But now is made manifest, and by the 
scriptures of the prophets, according to the com- 
mandment of the everlasting God, made known to all 
nations for the obedience of faith." 

This gospel Paul was preaching was the trying to 
make his hearers believe in Jesus Christ as the end of 
all prophecy, and the beginning of the fulfilling of all 
the blessings promised by God through Moses and 
the prophets, to the Jews and Gentiles, whilest the 
spirit was in the body. That all believers might sit 
together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, and be 
made partakers of all joys and blessings in heaven 
and earth, which is made possible to believers by the 



PROPHECIES FULFILLED. 87 

obedience and life of the dying, risen Savior, Jesus 
Christ; who has broken the bars of sin and death and 
opened a new and living way for man to enter that 
paradise from which he was driven for disobedience. 

Not a fleshly material paradise, but a spiritual one, 
not made with hands, but made by God in the soul 
and spirit of believers, by their loving obedience to 
all His commandments. 

Isaiah 4-4. ' * When the Lord shall have washed 
away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall 
have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst 
thereof by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of 
burning." 

9-6. ' ' For unto us a child is born, unto us a son 
is given : and the government shall be upon his 
shoulders: and his name shall be called Wonderful 
Counselor, the Almighty God, the Everlasting Fath- 
er, the Prince of Peace." 

1 Cor. 1 -2 1. " For after that in the wisdom of 
God the world by wisdom knew not God. It pleased 
God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that 
believe." 

19. il For it is written I will destroy the wisdom 
of the wise and will bring to naught the understand- 
ing of the prudent." 

Worldly, or fleshly, wisdom, which is represented 
in the scriptures as the cunning, crafty, deceitful, ty- 
ranical men, who live a material, sensual life. 

Isaiah 64-6. It is called filthy rags. 

Proverbs 14-12. "There is away that seemeth 



88 PROPHECIES FULFILLED. 

right unto man; but the end thereof are the ways of 
death." 

Proverbs 12-15. "The way of a fool is right in 
his own eyes." 

The natural exercises of the soul are first in sensu- 
al, or bodily good, and by this use a love is formed, 
which is the basis of selfishness, and selfishness is the 
love of material things, or fleshly good, without the 
commandment, and in the commandment is the idea 
which is the spirit that saves bodies as well as souls. 

1 Cor. 1-3 1. "He that glorieth let him glory in 
the Lord." 

Jerm. 9-24. "But let him that glorieth glory in 
this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am 
the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, 
and righteousness in the earth." 

This knowledge of God and the Redeemer is as 
certainly the result of the right exercises of our mat- 
ural qualities of soul and sense, as the material good, 
and this spiritual, or commandment, good is the end 
for which the material part should exercise itself, for 
in no other way can salvation come to body, soul and 
spirit. No one can draw encouragement from these 
texts of blessedness in the future, for ' 'now is the day 
of salvation." 

Luke 24-44. (i These are the words which I spake 
unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things 
must be fulfilled which are written in the law of Mos- 
es, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms, concern- 
ing me." 



PROPHECIES FULFILLED. 89 

45. ^Then opened he there understanding, that 
they might understand the scriptures." 

Salvation comes through knowledge, understanding 
and judgment, rather than the desires, affections, 
hopes and fears. 

1 Cor. 2-7, "But we speak the wisdom of God 
In a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God or- 
dained unto our glory." 

8. "Which none of the princes of this world 
knew, for had they known it they would not have 
crucified the Lord of Glory." 

Their ignorance was the cause of their foolish wis- 
dom, or bad religion, which consisted in material 
forms and worship, not regarding the mind, or spirit, 
which was the end for which all religion exists. 

Christ came to establish a right state of mind and 
heart, which would direct, not only the soul and feel- 
ings but all bodily actions. Christ in his labors taught 
to respect an value mostly the mind, or spirit, in 
these faculties in which wisdom and righteousness 
dw r ell. The Jews mostly respected and valued the af- 
fections, hopes, fears and actions which gave the most 
prominence to outward show. This varience continu- 
ed on the part of the Jews until it culminated in a 
deadly hate, and nothing short of Christ's crucifixion, 
and bodily death, would apease their anger. This 
was all they could do, for they had no power to kill 
the spirit, and as Christ had done no wrong He could 
not die in spirit, and to prove that He did not die in 
spirit His body was raised to life ; and also to prove 



gO PROPHECIES FULFILLED. 

that penitent sinners, who should believe in His name ? 
or teachings, should be raised from the death of sin 
and misery. Christ's was a temporal resurrection, 
the sinner's is a spiritual. Christ's was seen, the sin- 
ner's is unseen. 

Acts 26-22. " Having therefore obtained help of 
God, I continue to this day witnessing to both small 
and great, saying none other things than those which 
the Prophets and Moses did say should come." 

1 Peter 1-9. "Receiving the end of your faith 
even the salvation of your souls." 

10. "Who prophesied of the grace that should 
come unto you." 

1 Cor. 2-9. "For as it is written, eye hath not 
seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the 
heart of man, the things God hath prepared for them 
that love him." 

This passage is generally read by the believer as a 
promise of the blessings of state and existence be- 
yond the graYe. There is no good, or need of deny- 
ing this dogma of the church, but there is the great- 
est need that we should know what Paul quoted this 
text for. It is plain that the Jews rejected Christ be- 
cause he was not a temporal king. It is also plain 
that this was one of the prophecies which they read 
as to be fulfilled at His coming, as well as all others. 
Paul claims die same texts as proof of Christ being 
the one that was to come. The Jews never objected 
to Christ as fulfilling all those texts declaring, or 
prophesying, human suffering, or Christ's sufferings 



PROPHECIES FULFILLED. 9 1 

in the flesh, but when it came to the blessings they 
could not believe, because they were not temporal, 
and the faith of the church now is lacking, for they 
do not believe these blessings can be fulfilled, while 
the spirit is in the body. 

Romans 6-22, 23. ' ' But now being made free from 
sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit 
unto holiness and the end everlasting life. For the 
wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal 
life through Jesus Christ our Lord." 

Notwithstanding there is so many texts that declare 
salvation to be immediate, on faith and repentence, if 
we read one text right others must be read right too, 
or else there will not be good logic. If the death of 
Adam was in his loosing his spiritual, or soul, blessed- 
ness, which caused him to fear and to hide aw 7 ay from 
the Creator — for he lost faith in the commandment 
and the Creator too — so Christ came to manifest the 
God love in faith and obedience to the commandment, 
that made in faith and obedience to the spiritual com- 
mandments of Christ might have the mind happiness 
which was lost in Adam — and has continued to be 
lost to all who live after the flesh, or things seen — re- 
stored as to all mind, or soul, happiness, the bodily 
happiness is also restored all that it can be. 

Therefore I read this text as an argument, to prove 
to the Jews that their spiritual blessings which descend- 
ed on the apostles and believers at the day of penti- 
cost, and afterwards, was the fulfillment of the prophe- 
sy in Isaiah, and in all of the epistles of the New 



92 PROPHECIES FULFILLED. 

Testament this same idea is dwelt upon, that all the 
mysteries of righteousness in the Old Testament was 
being revealed in the New. 

i oth. "But God hath revealed them to us by his 
spirit, for the spirit searcheth all things, yea the deep 
things of God/' 

This searching spirit must mostly derive its power 
through the possession of wisdom and inteligence, 
which is obtained through the exercises of the senses 
and soul, by which means we gain the facts and truths 
to make the knowledge, understanding and judgment 
when rightly used produce the saving wisdom of the 
Bible. 

Christ posessed the spirit 4t without measure/ ' His 
"words are spirit and they are life. ,J This is the re- 
vealing spirit Paul refers to, as well as the descent of 
the Holy Spirit on believers, and is this holy state of 
mind, or spirit, anything more than the right state of 
mind and heart, or the holy exercise of all the funct- 
ions of the body, and the right exercises of all the 
faculties of soul and spirit. 

i Cor. 9-9. " For it is written in the law of Mos- 
es, Thou shalt not muzzel the mouth of the ox that 
treadeth out the corn." 

This is a text of the Old Testament, which the 
writer had no other idea of than temporal, and that of 
animals treading out grain. The Old Testament 
worked with material means, the New with spiritual. 
At this time of Christ's spiritual kingdom we may do 
as the New Testament writers did with the Old Testa- 



PROPHECIES FULFILLED. 93 

ment texts, spiritualize much that Christ and His fol- 
lowers wrote out in temporals. After so long a time 
of spiritual work, God through our experience does 
teach how to decern the spiritual from the carnal more 
perfectly than they could in the first beginning of 
Christ's kingdom. 

John 7-16. "If any man will do his will, he shall 
know of the doctrine." 

2 Timothy 3-16. " All scripture is given by inspi- 
ration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for re- 
proof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." 

17. "That the man of God may be qerfect, thor- 
oughly furnished unto all good works." 

I Cor. 14-32. "And the spirit of the prophets are 
subject to the prophets." 

I Cor. 12-10. "To another the decerning of 
spirits." 

These texts teach that believers in their growth in 
grace, or wisdom, from generation to generation, are 
better prepared to understand the spiritual meaning of 
texts. This agrees with Adam's case, the bodily 
powers with the soul faculties were finished at once. 
These powers by keeping the commandments would 
bring in the spiritual, the acquired knowledge of truth, 
and right, and good, by which the understanding and 
judgment is perfected, which is the heart God promis- 
ed in the Old Testament to give to His people, as it 
was done on the day of penticost. 

1 Cor. 13-10. "But when that which is perfect is 
come, then that which is in part shall be done away." 



94 PROPHECIES FULFILLED. 

1 Cor. 15-54. " Death is swallowed up in victory. " 
This is from Isaiah 25-8. "He will swallow up 

death in victory and the Lord God will wipe away all 
tears from all faces." 

Paul is speaking in verse 53, of mortal putting on 
immortality, and corruptable putting on incorruption. 
The same truth is in this text as in the new birth ; 
washing of water ; resurrection by baptism ; being 
made new creatures in Christ Jesus, and overcoming 
by faith. Although the face of the body may weep 
and shed tears, on account of pain in its members, 
yet the soul and the spirit will weep not, because of 
Christ's righteousness which dwells in us, to deliver 
from all sin and misery. 

2 Cor. 1-20. "For all the promises of God in 
him are yea and amen unto the Glory of God by us." 

Does this verse mean that all the promises of the 
Old Testament were fulfilled in Christ ? 

Acts 5-26, "Unto you first God having raised 
up his son Jesus sent him to bless you, in turning 
away every one of you from his iniquities." 

The soul and spirit of all men which possesses 
Christ, as He is offered in the gospel, has attained all 
things in good, which heaven and earth can bestow, 
which glorifies God in the highest degree, aud Christ 
has the satisfaction of all His trouble and suffering. 
This is the joy set before Him. 

Isaiah 49-8. '•• In an acceptable time have I heard 
thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee." 



PROPHECIES FULFILLED. i 95 

2 Cor. 6-2. "I have heard thee in a time accept- 
ed, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee; 
behold now is the accepted time, behold now is the 
day of salvation.'' 

In Isaiah the text speaks of a salvation taking place 
immediately. Paul applies the gospels of Christ as 
being a present salvation, emphasizing it with a "be- 
hold," and in this way urging his hearers to accept 
Christ and His teachings, as the end of God's revala- 
tions for man's good and blessedness. As Adam by 
transgression lost his blessed state of mind, or soul, 
in the same way all men have been made miserable, 
but as Jesus lived without sin, keeping all God's com- 
mandments, so all believers that keep His command- 
ments, shall find that peace and rest of soul and spirit 
which cannot be obtained in any other way. 

2 Cor.. 7-1. "Having therefore these promises, 
dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthi- 
ness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the 
fear of God." 

Col. 1-26. "Even the mystery which hath been 
hid from ages and from generations, but now is made 
manifest to his saints." 

27. "To whom God would make known what is 
the riches, of the glory, of this mystery among the 
Gentiles; which is Christ in you the hope of glory." 

28. "Whom we preach, warning every man and 
teaching every man in all wisdom ; that we may pre- 
sent every man perfect in Christ Jesus." 

These verses require a perfect holiness immediately 



96 PROPHECIES FULFILLED. 

on experiencing the new birth, so that as God was 
manifest in Christ's body, it may be manifest in the 
body of believers, for they are His body, since His 
own body ascended. 

2 Timothy 1-9. "Who hath saved us and called 
us with a holy calling, not according to our works, 
but according to his own purpose and grace, which 
was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began/' 

10. " But is now made manifest by the appearing 
of our Savior Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death 
and hath brought life and immortality to light through 
the gospel." 

The spiritual death, or loss of a blessed state of 
soul, which Adam experienced immediately on trans- 
gression, which, without the commandment or Christ, 
is the state all are born in, is the death Christ has 
abolished, and believers who keep His commandments 
are no more naked, and are no more ashamed, nor 
seek to hide away from God, but by faith and love 
are in His presence in joy and gladness. 



CHAPTER VII. 



CHRISTIAN REST. 



Exodus 31-15. "Six days may work be done; 
but in the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the 
Lord : whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, 
he shall surely be put to death." 

Be it bodily work or material work. 

Levi. 16-31. "It shall be a sabbath of rest unto 
you, and ye shall afflict yourselves." 

Levi. 25-4. •" But in the seventh year shall be a 
sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord: 
thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vine- 
yard." 

This is all physical rest and matter rest. 

Joshua 21-44. "A*id the Lord gave them rest 
round about, according to all that he swear unto their 
fathers." 

The land was now apportioned to every tribe as 
their lot was. 



98 CHRISTIAN REST. 

Deut. 3-20. Mannassa was to help all the other 
tribes, till the land had rest from all their enemies. 

12-9. " For ye are not as yet come to the rest 
and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God giv- 
eth you." 

10. " But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in 
the land which the Lord your God giveth you to in- 
herit, and when he giveth you rest from all your en- 
emies round about, so that ye dwell in safety." 

This speaks of soul and mind rest, as well as mater- 
ial, or bodily rest. 

Deut. 28-65. "And among these nations shalt 
thou find no ease, neither shall the soul of thy foot 
have rest : but the Lord shall give thee there a trem- 
bling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind." 

Here is soul, or spiritual unrest, as well as physical 
unrest. 

Josh. 14-15. " And the land had rest from war." 

This would include mind rest, as well as physical. 

Judg. 5-31. "So let all their enemies perish, O 
Lord : but let them that love him be as the sun when 
he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest 
40 years." 

Ruth 3-18. " For the man will not be in rest until 
he have finished the thing this day." 

2 Sam. 7-1 "The Lord had King David rest from 
all his enemies round about." 

1 King's 5-4. "But now the Lord my God hath 
given me rest on every side, so that there is neither 
adversity, nor evil occurrant. " 



CHRISTIAN REST. 99 

These texts have no referance to state of existenc 
after death. 

8-56. " Blessed be the Lord who hath given rest 
to his people Israel according to all that he prom- 
ised." 

1 Chron. 22-9. "Behold a son shall be born to 
thee, who shall be a man of rest, and I will give him 
rest from all his enemies round about: for his name 
shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness 
in his days to Israel." 

In these texts are fulfilled the spiritual blessings, as 
well as the temporal. 

2 Chron. 15-15. "For they had sworn with all 
their hearts, and sought him with their whole desire, 
and he was found of them, and the Lord gave them 
rest round about." 

2 Chron. 20-30. "So the realm of Jehoshaphat 
was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about." 

Job 3-13. "Then had I been at rest with kings." 
He is bewaling the day of his birth. 

17th. "There the wicked cease from troubling, 
and the weary be at rest." 

Job in these texts must refer to physical death, and 
non existence. The troubling of the wicked must 
be in this fleshly, material life. 

Eccl. 9-10. "Whatsoever thy hands find to do, 
do it with all thy might ; for there is no work, nor de- 
vice, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave wheth- 
er thou goest." 



IOO CHRISTIAN REST. 

Psalms 38-3. " There is no soundness in my flesh, 
because of thine anger, neither is there any rest in 
my bones because of my sin." 

55-6. "I said, O that I had wings like a dove, 
then would I fly away and be at rest." 

94-13. ''That thou may est give him rest from the 
days of adversity, until the pit be diged for the 
wicked." 

nth. "Unto whom I swear in my wrath, that 
they should not enter into my rest." 

See Hebrews 3—1 1. 

Jonah 2-2. "And said. I cried by reason of my 
affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me ; out of the 
belly of hell cried I, and thou heard my voice." 

In the margin it says, "hell, or out of mine afflic- 
tion," showing that hell is misery in the body, soul, 
and spirit. 

Psalms 1 16-7. "Return unto thy rest, O my soul; 
for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee." 

132-8. "Arise, O Lord, into thy rest; thou, and 
the ark of thy strength." 

14th. "This is my rest forever : here will I dwell ; 
for I have desired it." (Micah 2-10; Zechariah 

1 1-9.) 

Pro v. 29-17. " Correct thy son and he shall give 

thee rest : yea he shall give delight unto thy soul." 

Eel. 2-23. "For all his days are sorrows, and 
his travails grief, yea his heart taketh not rest in the 
night." 



CHRISTIAN REST. IOI 

Isaiah ii-io. " And in that day there shall be a 
root of Jesse which sriall stand for an ensign for the 
people ; to it shall the Gentiles seek ; and his rest 
shall be glorious/ ' 

14-3. " And it shall come to pass in the day, that 
the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and 
from thy fear, and from thy hard bondage, wherein 
thou wast made to serve/ ' 

Isaiah 14-7. "The whole earth is at rest, and is 
quiet: they break forth into singing/' 

18-4. " For so the Lord said unto me, I will take 
my rest." 

28-12. "To whom he said, this is the rest where- 
with ye may cause the weary to rest, and this is the 
refreshing: yet they would not hear." 

30-15. "For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy 
One of Israel ; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; 
in quietness and confidence shall be your strength : 
and ye would not." 

34-14. "The screech owl also shall rest there, 
and find for herself there a place of rest." 

Jeremi. 6-16. "Thus saith the Lord, stand in the 
ways, and see and ask for the old paths, where is the 
good way, and walk ye therein, and ye shall find rest 
to your souls. But they said, We will not walk 
therein." 

Math. 11-28. "Come unto me all ye that labor, 
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." 

Matthew 12-43. "When the unclean spirit is 



102 CHRISTIAN REST. 

gone out of a man he walketh through dry places 
seeking rest and findeth none." 

Because he does not take the spirit of Christ to fill 
the place of the unclean. 

26-49. "Then cometh he to his disciples and 
saith unto them, sleep on now and take your rest." 

Here is physical rest spoken of, which is necessary 
for their bodies. 

Acts 9-31. "Then had the churches rest through- 
out all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edi- 
fied : and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the 
comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied." 

This is the first fruits and fulfillment of God's prom- 
ise, when He would make all things new, because He 
would write His law in their hearts and put a right 
spirit within them, that they should know Him and 
love one another in righteousness. This is the king- 
dom of God in the hearts of men, fulfilling the proph- 
isies, as well as being what Christ came into the world 
for. In these believers, in their state of mind, is the 
christian rest so much spoken of in Hebrews. They 
have passed out of the wilderness of sin, have died 
unto sin, and have entered into the heavenly Jerusa- 
lem, come down out of heaven from God, having the 
glory of God in all those qualities of mind and heart 
described in Romans 12, and in all the epistles of the 
New Testament, and represented in Revelations as all 
precious, material things. 

Why all men fail to attain to this heavenly state, is 
because they do not do their part to attain the right- 



CHRISTIAN REST. 103 

eousness of God, as manifest in the life and teachings 
of Jesus Christ. God has finished His part of the 
work. 

Men are not now to wait for revalation, as the 
Old Testament saints did, if they will not believe 
Christ they shall die in their sins. The Creator 
will not disgrace man's will, any more than He 
will any other work of_ His in man, or other 
things. If man will not repent and accept of 
this blessed state of soul and spirit, he must remain 
in the death state of sin and misery, described all 
through the Bible as the pain of burning fire. To 
the loving, obedient believer, as on the day of penti- 
cost, this fire of God's is to them a life giving power, 
and to the unbeliever it is a consuming fire. By +he 
extreme exercise of the soul passions, anger, hatred, 
jealousy, revenge, and malice, these in their raging 
power is the "burning to the lowest hell." "It is 
better to marry than to burn." 

2 Thes. 1-7. "And to you who are troubled rest 
with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from 
heaven with his mighty angels." 

Hebrews 4—1. "Let us therefore fear, lest, a 
promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of 
ybu should seem to come short of it." 

3. " For we which have believed do enter into 
rest." 

4. "And God did rest the seventh day from all 
his works." 



104 CHRISTIAN REST. 

5. "And in this place again, if they shall enter 
into my rest." 

6. " Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must 
enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached 
enter not in because of unbelief." 

9. " Therefore there remaineth a rest for the peo- 
ple of God." 

This verse refers to the rest believers experience 
when they receive Christ as the way, the truth and 
the life, which they could not experience under 
Moses. 

II. ' ' Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest 
lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." 

Heb. 3-10. " Wherefore I was greived with that 
generation, and said, They do always err in their 
heart; and they have not known my Ways." 

11. ''So I swear in my wrath, They shall not 
enter into my rest." 

18. "And to whom swear he that they should not 
enter into his rest, but to them that believe not." 

19. " So we see that they could not enter in be- 
cause of unbelief." 

Heb. 4-3. "For we who have believed, do enter 
into rest as he said." 

Cor. 12-9. "Most gladly therefore will I rather 
glory in my infermities, that the power of Christ may 
rest upon you." 

Gal. 3-28. "There is neither Jew nor Greek, 
there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male 
nor female, for ye are one in Christ Jesus." 



CHRISTIAN REST. IO5 

Gal. 5-14. "For the law is all fulfilled in one 
word, even this; thou shalt love thy neighbour as 
thyself." 

In these verses Paul lays all the stress on the time 
this side the grave, as the christian graces are enum- 
erated in this chapter which are indespensible to the 
believer as his rest, and evidence of his acceptance of 
Christ's salvation. In this same chapter is enumerat- 
ed the wicked actions which show, or evidence, a 
state of mind, or heart, which is all through the Bible 
declared to be a state of unrest. "The wicked are 
like the troubled sea, whose waters cast up mire and 
dirt." 

Eph. 2-21. " In whom all the building fitly fram- 
ed together groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord." 

22. "In whom ye also are builded together for a 
habitation of God through the Spirit." 

These verses show the salvation of Christ to be in 
the present body, soul and spirit, and manifests the 
glory of God, bceause this is the end for which man 
was made, and God waited all the time from Adam 
to Jesus to find one that would have a will to think 
and act according unto his will. Our will is as much 
the gift of God as any of the graces that are saving. 

1 Thes. 4-1 1. "And that ye study to be quiet 
and to do your own business, and to work with your 
own hands as we commanded you. " 

To be quiet is like rest of mind, and in this text is 
connected with the body. Our bodies and souls are 



I06 CHRISTIAN REST. 

the temple in which dwells the spirit of God. They 
are His house. 

Hebrews 3-1 1. "Let us labor therefore to enter 
into that rest, lest any man fall after the same exam- 
ple of unbelief. ,, (Margin, or disobedience.) 

The 1 2th verse declares the operation of the word 
to be in all the faculties and functions of body, soul 
and spirit. 

6-45 & 6. Relates to believers that have once 
been made partakers of this heavenly rest and salva- 
tion, if they fall away to renew them to repentance, 
for their is no other way by which we can attain to 
this blessed state of righteousness and rest. In the 
first vsrses of this Chapter Paul exhorts to go on to 
perfection. This is the exercise of all the functions 
of body, and in the faculties of soul and spirit in 
righteousness. 

10-26. "For if we sin wilfully after that we have 
received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth 
no more sacrifices for sin." 

This all has reference to the life in the body. 

Romans 13 -21. "Make you perfect in every good 
work to do his will, working in you that which is well 
pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ. " 

This verse shows Christ came into this world to 
save us from sin and misery before the death of the 
body. 

I Peter 3-4. "But let it be the hidden man of 
the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the or- 



CHRISTIAN REST. 10/ 

nament of a meek and a quiet spirit, which is in the 
sight of God of great price." 

The good and well desposed mind, enlightned by 
true knowledge, are things not seen by the temporal 
eye, but by the spiritual eye, or the understanding. 
The hidden man of the heart, are those graces of the 
believer, so often enumerated by Paul in his epistles. 
These eternal, invisible things, are hid until by voice, 
or action, through the natural functions of the body, 
are made manifest. 

These texts which have not the word rest in them, 
teach the nature and character of the rest which is 
promised to obedient believers, which would enable 
them to grow out of the child state, in which they 
would use only the beginning of the principles of 
Christ. 

Chap. 5— II. ' "Of whom we have many things to 
say, and hard to be utered, seeing ye are dull of 
hearing." 

In the 14th verse those that are of age, or in use of 
these good qualities of soul and spirit, or perfect, as 
the margin reads it, do eat meat, decern the truth, 
and good and evil. The next Chapter exhorts us to 
go on unto perfection, leaving all the disputable things 
of Moses, the law, and Christ, as Paul enumerates 
them, and live out and in the blessed, righteous lov- 
ing obedience, by which we shall form a living char- 
acter, which is one of the resurrected bodies Paul 
speaks of in I Cor. 15th Chapter and it shall ever be 



108 SPIRITUAL JOYS. 

before God and man as the character of Abram, 
Moses, Samuel, David, and all the New Testament 
believers are. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

SPIRITUAL JOYS. 

Luke 22-18. "I will not drink of the fruit of the 
vine, until the kingdom of God shall come." 

The New Testament saints are to experience the 
spiritual, which had been hid from the foundation of 
the world, hid to, or from, man, because he would 
not use his body and soul faculties to receive, or to 
learn to attain to those invisible qualities of mind, or 
attributes of mind, soul, or spirit, which is the work, 
to secure that wisdom, love, and power of mind, by 
which man is able to render to God, the Creator, 
Redeemer and Preserver, the true spiritual obedience 
to which physical obedience is always attached, or 
follows. 



SPIRITUAL JOYS. IO9 

The New Testament saints receive the idea, or 
knowledge and facts, by which the Lord would only 
create in the believer that heart which was promised 
in the Old Testament, when he promised to make all 
things new. 

Jer. 31-33. The new heavens are the perfect 
righteousness of the minds of believers in Christ, by 
which we have good rulers, laws, and governments, 
or principalities, or powers, and loving parents and 
children. The new earth means all men's enterprise 
in material and bodily works, according to the con- 
trivance of the heavenly mind, or all works which 
result in good and blessedness, without evil. 

Isaiah 45-7. "I form the light, and create dark- 
ness ; I make peace and create evil ; I the Lord do 
all these things." 

Amos 3-6. " Shall there be evil in a city, and the 

Lord have not done it? " 

The Creator gave man a will, as he has all the other 

faculties of soul and spirit, God does good by man's 
willing, loving obedience. God's part is in making 
man's capabilities, and it is all good, man by willing 
works with God, for his good, or evil. God's respon- 
sibility is in the making, man's in the using. This 
gives man a chance to grow into the devine, by mak- 
ing all his willing, end in all spiritual wisdom : or 
making all his willing to end in material, selfish, pas- 
sionate, cunning, deceitfulness and fleshly folly. 

Christ drinking wine new in his Father's Kingdom, 
was what Paul says, in Heb. 12-2, "He endured 
the cross for the joy set before him." 



IIO SPIRITUAL JOYS. 

Luke 15-7. "Joy shall be in heaven over one 
sinner that repenteth. 

This joy is the wine Christ meant that he would 
drink new fti his Father's Kingdom. This was fulfill- 
ed on the day of penticost in the believers, who were 
filled with all spiritual knowledge and wisdom. And 
this time it was done by a miracle, as a sample of 
what man can be when he uses from infancy his nat- 
ural faculties, to acquire the facts, and truths of ex- 
perience, nature and revelation, which gives the knowl. 
edge of God, and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent, in 
which is eternal life. John 17-3. 

Jer. 25-15. ''Take the wine-cup of this fury at 
my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send 
thee, to drink it." 

This means misery of soul, body and spirit, by war 
anger, strife, deceit, drunkenness and all kinds of 
wickedness. 

Eph. 5-18. "And be not drunk with wine, but 
be filled with the spirit. " 

This means, be filled with joy, in love, patience, 
meekness, holiness and good works. 

Rev. 16-19. "To give into her hand the cup of 
the wine of the fierceness of his w T rath." 

The Jews said the spirits power on the believers at 
the day of penticost, was the effect of wine, but Peter 
told them it was the fulfillment of the spiritual bless- 
ings promised in the Old Testament. 

It seems plain that Christ meant spiritual joys, such 
as were manifested by the true believers, as the Holy 



SPIRITUAL JOYS. 1 1 I 

Spirit took possession of the body, soul and spirit of 
them; thus was manifested the effects of Christ's bap- 
tising with the Holy Spirit, and with fire. The obe- 
dient were by it warmed into life and light, and the 
disobedient, by telling a lie, by shame and remorse 
of conscience, was in them a consuming fire. This is 
the way God is the author of evil. 

Math. 26-29. "But I say unto you, I will not 
drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, till I drink 
it new with you in my Father's Kingdom." 

This is one of Christ's expressions, declaring some- 
thing that should take place in the future. 

Christ in the flesh could use material things to rep- 
resent things of mind, or spirit. 

Christ participated in the believers joy on the day 
of penticost, which was what he meant when at the 
table he said he would not drink of the fruit of the 
vine till he drank it new in "my Father's Kingdom." 

The righteous, blessed state of the believers, was 

the kingdom, and was also the joy which was set be 

fore Christ, that enabled Him to endure the cross, 

despising the shame. 

The great multitude of sinners saved will be a 

great recompense for the short time He suffered in 
the flesh; this blessed, joyous state of spirit, mind 
and heart of the innumerable company of the redeem- 
ed before the throne, singing the song of Moses, and 
the Lamb, which Christ saw by his Spirit and under- 
standing gathered before Him from all peoples. This 
is fulfilling in the improved civilization and christani- 
zation of people at the present day. 



I 1 2 SPIRITUAL JOYS. 

Gen. 49-11. Judah, in soul, or spirit, power, is 
represented by saying, <( He should tie his ainmals to 
the vine, and wash his garments and clothes in wine. 
He should be fruitfull in social enjoyments, both in 
family, as well as in society and government." 

Deut. 32-33. " Their wine is the poison of drag- 
ons, and the cruel venom of asps." 

This represents the cruel passions and purposes, 
and enjoyments of fleshly minded men. 

Sol. Songs 1-2. "For thy love is better than 
wine." 

Here is a spiritual exercise represented by a fleshly 
feeling, which is all powerful in gratification. So in 
Revelations, the Golden City represents all joyous 
and righteous blessedness. 

Isaiah 29-9. ' ' They are drunken, but not with 
wine, they stager, but not with strong drink." 

Here, by a drunken, stagering body, is represented 
a soul, or spirit, in a doubting, deceitful, changing, 
indolent, ignorant, fleshly, way. 



CHAPTER IX. 

HEAVEN. 

Heaven is spoken of in the scriptures as a place, 
and that place is within the atmosphere of the earth, 
and very few texts can be read as extending beyond. 

Deut. 9-1. "To go in and possess nations greater 
than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven." 

Gen. 1-7. "And God made the firnament, and 
divided the waters, which were under the firmament, 
from the waters which were above the firmament." 

6. "And God said let there be a firmament in the 
midst of tfre waters, and let it divide, the waters from 
the waters." 

8. "And God called the firnament heaven." 

Heaven as a state, or experience, of good and 
blessedness in body, soul and spirit has many texts, 
which are the ones that concern man, because to per- 
fect these he has a part to do, but heaven as a place 
for man can do nothing. 

These heavenly, invisible things were once for all 
manifested in the body of Jesus, and His body is 



114 HEAVEN. 

ascended to this heavenly state, more than to a place, 
that the Godly manifestations might be made through, 
or in the bodies of believers. If Christ's body should 
come back to earth, He could not add to the spiritual 
which has already been manifested. 

The Christ power, or spiritual, can be manifested 
by believers, as well as by the body of Christ, when 
believers shall not neglect, or oppose any of the means 
and ways which are provided for them, to enable them 
to rise to this high attainment. Christ has attained to 
all things in heaven and earth, and all these things 
are promised to those who believe on His name. 

Eph. 3-15. "Of whom the whole family in heav- 
en and earth is named." 

Eph. 1-22. "And hath put all things under his 
feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the 
church." 

23. "Which is his body, the fullness of him, that 
filleth. all in all." 

It is in accordance with scripture to look for Christ 
in the bodies of believers, and believers work and study 
to have Christ in them, the hope of glory, then shall 
be fulfilled those passages of scripture which speak of 
His coming in power and great glory, with the as- 
sembly of the innumerable company of saints, who 
shall judge the world. This judgment is the Christ 
power dwelling in believers, the same in kind as 
dwelt in Christ's body. Believers bodies are Christ's 
body to fulfill all things." 



HEAVEN. 1 1 5 

t 

I Cor. 6-2. " Do ye not know that the saints 
shall judge the world." 

3. " Know ye not we shall judge angels." 
To be a man after God's own heart is what man 
was intended for, not for transgression and misery. 

Hebrews 11-17. "But now they desire a better 
country, that is a heavenly, wherefore God is not 
ashamed to be ealled their God; for he hath prepared 
them a city." 

These saints were dissatisfied with idolitry, and its 
accompanying sin and misery, and in loving obedience 
to God's commands they found that heavenly blessed- 
ness which the world cannot give or take away. 

Hebrews 12-28. "Wherefore receiving a king- 
dom, which cannot be moved, let us have grace 
whereby we can serve God, acceptably, with rever- 
rence and Godly fear." 

22. " But ye are eome unto Mount Sion, and unto 
the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, 
and to an innumerable company of angels." 

. 2 Peter 1-18. "And this voice which came from 
heaven, we heard when we were with him, in the 
holy mount." 

The voice speaking to the Hebrews, was the high- 
est evidence of God's presence, and this was not far 
from them. 

Gen. 19-24. " Then the Lord rained upon Sodam 
and Gomorrah brimstone, and fire, from the Lord, 
out of heaven." 



II 6 i HEAVEN. 

21-17. " And the angel of God called to Hagar 
out of heaven. " 

Heaven in these texts, is the same as discribed 
at the time of tjie creation. It was within the atmos- 
phere of the earth. 

Deut. 4-36. "Out of heaven he made thee to 
hear his voice, that he might instruct thee." 

This text shows God's place, from which He gives 
instruction, and His commandments in spiritual things, 
to be the same place as from where He deals out His 
temporal; it is all within the atmosphere. God is 
represented by the air, rather than by opake matter, 
hence the breath that was breathed into Adam by the 
Creator, is about the same as spirit, which made 
Adam a living soul ; hence Christ uses the wind to 
illustrate the second birth. Air cannot be seen by 
the eye of the body, so affections, knowledge, under- 
standing, judgment and will, cannot bs seen by the 
eye. 

1 Sam. 2-10. "Out of heaven shall he thunder 
upon them." 

Gen. 28-17. "And he was afraid, and said, how 
dreadful is this place, this is none other than the 
house of God, this is the gate of heaven. ,, 

Jacob's ladder may represent a distance beyond the 
atmosphere, or it may not. 

Psalms 20-6 "He will hear him from his holy 
heaven." 

Heaven is holy, because of its being free from the 



HEAVEN. 117 

decay and changeableness in earthly matter, it is not 
affected by heat and cold as the earth is. 

78-24. " And had rained down manna upon them 
to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven." 

148-13. "His glory, is above the earth and 
heaven." 

Isaiah 66-1 " The heaven is my throne, and the 
earth is my footstool." 

This text shows the heaven and earth to be in close 
connection, if not one, having two parts, the body is 
one, having many parts. 

Jer. 23-24. "Can any hide himself in secret 
places that I shall not see him : do not I fill heaven 
and earth." 

Deut. 28-12. "The Lord shall open to thee his 
good treasure, the heaven, to give the rain unto thy 
land." 

Deut. 9-1. "To possess nations greater and 
mighter than thyself, cities great, and fenced up to 
heaven." 

1 Chron. 21-16. "And David saw the angel stand 
between the heavens, and the earth." 

Deut. 30-12. "It is not in heaven that thou 
shouldst say, who shall go up for us to heaven, and 
bring it unto us, that w r e may hear it, and do it." 

13th. "Neither is it beyond the sea ; that thou 
shouldst say, who shall go over the sea for us, and 
bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it." 

14th. "But the word is very nigh unto tttee, in 
thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it." 



1 1 8 HEAVEN. 

This text shows that man is the object, and end of 
all the Creator's labors and love, and if man will only- 
work with the Creator through, or by, the temporal, 
for the attainment of the spiritual, or true wisdom, so 
as to manifest God's mind and attributes, in his 
righteousness, and blessedness of body, soul and 
spirit, and his wise government, of himself and of all 
other creatures, which are of a lower order of being, 
thus exercising his powers to promote the. good and 
happiness of all living creatures, who like himself are 
capable of feeling, or simpler life, or action. Then 
man's capabilities can be exercised on all inimate, 
organized matter, from the most delicate flower, to 
the granite rock, in all the various ways which his 
genious and inventions can desire for his own good 
and blessedness, all of which gloryfies the Creator; 

Man in this holy righteous state of body, soul and 
spirit, is the highest object of contemplation of which 
he is capable, because in himself he finds all the ele- 
ments, or beginnings of the Creator, Redeemer and 
Preserver in progress, but not in originality. This 
state of wisdom, and goodness, and power makes him 
worthy of his immortal Creator. This shows the 
true, progressive gradation from inert matter to im- 
mortal mind or spirit. The reason man fails to gain 
this immortality is, he fails to test, or to subject every 
taste, feeling, desire, hope, fear and imagination to 
the truth, as it is decided by the judgment, which 
is made up of, or by true knowledge, making a right 
understanding. Man has no right to any practical 



HEAVEN. II9 

exercise of body, soul, or spirit, until all the faculties 
of body, soul and spirit have witnessed to it, that it 
is right and good, according to the part each faculty 
has a right to act in creating this decission. 

Jer. 8-7. 4t Yea the stork in the heaven knoweth 
her appointed time; and the turtle, and the crane, 
and the swallow, observe the time of their coming ; 
but my people know not the judgment of the 
Lord." 

Matthew 16-17. "And Jesus answered and said 
unto him ; Blessed art thou Simon Barjona ; for flesh 
and blood hath not revealed this unto thee, but my 
Father which is in heaven." 

The flesh and blood are the instrument, or means, 
through, or by, which the revelation of the Father's 
mind, was revealed to Peter's mind. This is the 
natural way ; the supernatural would be mind com- 
municate with mind, without the use of means. 

Math. 24-30. " And then shall appear the sign of 
the Son of Man in heaven: and then shall all the 
tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son 
of Man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power, 
and great glory." 

All the advance in intelligence and learning, of 
whatever truths, in matter, or mind, which is in ac- 
cordance with good and right, is of God, or of the 
Son of Man. The telegraph, railroads, and other 
new inventions, that truly minister to man's good, 
and right, these acts and works in material things 
seen, are evidences of the growth of mind, in 



120 HEAVEN. 

man generally, and all this growth belongs to the Son 
of Man, not to the world, flesh, or the devil. Every 
one of these new good things, have come through 
thick clouds of dark anxiety, fear, unsympathized 
perseverance. Who dare say this is the result of 
desires, hopes and imaginations. These material re- 
sults of mind work, must suceed by the result of the 
work of mind, on mind, or the study of how to cre- 
ate, or invent a way to have everybody have a large, 
lovely, intelligent, good and wise mind, or spirit. 
When this spiritual work is enterd upon with as much 
wisdom and perseverance as the material good is 
labored for, then not only will the sign of the Son of 
Man be seen, but Himself shall be seen by the under- 
standing, and known by every heart that loves truth 
more than error, good without evil intelligence, more 
than ignorance that loves knowledge and ideas for the 
good they bring to the mind in knowledge of the Cre- 
ator, and Redeemer, and Preserver, and of our own 
powers of mind and spirit, as well as for the good 
that knowledge and ideas help us to get temporal 
good. Man must learn to take happiness in the 
knowledge of things, whether he can have the things 
themselves, or not, then will he begin to enter on 
heavenly joys. 

The thief on the cross in his mind might be in par- 
adice by repentance and forgiveness. He had a con- 
science void cf offence toword God and man. This 
would be joy to a condemned sinner. 



HEAVEN. 121 

Luke 6-20. ' ' Blessed be ye poor : for yours is 
the kingdom of God." 

Believers in obedience to all God's commandments, 
enter into this kingdom, and in the same way the 
kingdom enters into them. 

9-24. ' ' Which shall not taste of death till they 
see the kingdom of God." 

In this text temporal death is what is ment, and on 
the day of penticost, they saw the spiritual, or Christ's 
Kingdom, by, or in their minds, or understanding, 
and the effect of it on their bodies and actions. 

Math. 3-2. "Repent ye: for the kingdom of 
heaven is at hand." 

2 Kings 19-15. "God of Isreal dwells between 
the cherubims." 

This is said, because in the ark, on which the cher- 
ubims were placed, contained the ten commandments, 
wnich declared God's will to man, for man's good. 

Math. 5-10. " Blessed are they which are perse- 
cuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom 
of heaven." 

Suffering by the actions of others, is not punish- 
ment, if we have not done wrong, and we show to 
others we will not render evil for evil, which manifests 
the kingdom of God in us. 

20th. "That except your righteousness shall 
exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, 
ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven." 

This righteousness of bodily actions is as filthy rags, 
but the righteousness of all mind, or spirit, actions, 



122 HEAVEN. 

by all attributes of soul and spirit, are what evidences 
us as one with Christ. 

7-21. i% Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, 
Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven : but he 
that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven." 

Mere words of profession alone, cannot evidence in 
us the heavenly state, because the Creator will have 
the body and soul, to do their part, that all His work 
may be honored according to its worth, in the place 
of its progress, or the relation of each part to the 
whole. 

18-3. " Except ye be converted, and become as 
little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of 
heaven." 

Christ uses the birth, growth of children, and the 
mustard seed, to teach us that in the smallest things, 
and in our beginnings, we may be His followers, that 
is not so much the amount of good that makes us ac- 
cepted, as it is the kind, and the continued growth, 
or progress in good. 

As we cannot see the air with our bodily eyes, so 
we cannot see that state and working of mind, or 
spirit, which makes us subjects of His heavenly king- 
dom. . 

8-1 1. ' ' And shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac 
and Jacob." 

This sitting down together, does not refer to bodies, 
but to mind, spirit and character in us. Paul says, 
believers shall sit together in heavenly places, with, 
or in Christ Jesus. 



HEAVEN. I23 

In the 15th Chapter of Cor. about the resurrection, 
one of the bodies referred to is the character of be- 
lievers, as opposed to the character of unbelievers. 
All who have faith are children of Abraham, are like 
him in spirit and character, so in knowledge, intelli 
gence, obedience, faith and love, all souls and spirits 
are as one in Christ Jesus, or speaking of them sepa- 
rately, they are an innumerable company, which no 
man in the body, or out, can number. 

Math. 1 1 -1 1. " Notwithstanding, he that is least 
in the kingdom of heaven, is greater than he." 

John the Baptist, as well as Christ, lived the bodily 
life under the law of Moses, which required physical 
righteousness. A man could not be condemned if he 
observed all the commandments of bodily action, yet 
if he would he might observe the spirit, as well as the 
letter. Christ's Kingdom is in the minds, or spirit of 
men, to make them right in all soul, mind and spirit 
faculties, and attributes, which are certain to direct all 
bodily action aright. The least spiritually righteous 
mind fs more in accordance with God, who is a spirit, 
than the most exact bodily obedience. 

1 3-1 1. " Because it is given to you, to know the 
mysteries of heaven, but to them it is not given." 

The fleshly minded do not value mind, or knowl- 
edge of God, or of spiritual wisdom, of any account, 
unless it will promote their temporal good, or sensual 
enjoyment. 

31. "The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of 
mustard seed." 



124 HEAVEN. 

33. "The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, 
which a woman took, and hid in three measures of 
meal, till the whole was leavened." 

The body and soul, as being born of the flesh, is 
like the meal, of itself it would never gain the spiritu- 
al, but for the truth of God the Creator, by His com- 
mandments and its own obedience. That which is born 
of the flesh cannot attain to the truths and heavenly 
wisdom. Chirst by His commandments and teachings 
to man can fill the soul with all the fullness of God. 

47. "The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a 
net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every 
kind." 

All human beings are in the way to heaven in their 
beginning, but by their wicked mind and bodies cast 
themselves out of the way and perish. 

John 3-3. M Except a man be born again, he can- 
not see the kingdom of God." 

As spiritual unseen things, as truths, ideas, knowl- 
edge, understanding, judgment, conscience., will, 
memory, are required mostly in succession, we may 
say every new truth, fact, or idea gained to the mem- 
ory, or mind, or spirit, is a spiritual birth. These ac- 
quisitions being in accordance with good and blessed 
ness, we have Christ formed in us the hope of glory. 
Having the mind of Christ and the spirit of God we 
are new creatures ; do not live after the flesh, but 
walk in the spirit, which are things not seen and eter- 
nal, the wind is not seen, so spirit and eternal things 
are not seen. 



HEAVEN. 125 

5. ■ ■ Except a man be born of water and the spir- 
it, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God," 

As water is of universal use to dense from all filth, 
so the truth of God, through Christ, is sufficient to 
cleanse from all sin, and wrong and misery. 

1 Cor. 4-20. * ' For the kingdom of God is not in 
word, but in power." 

Words belong to the body, or letter, or things 
temporal. These things are means of manifesting 
power, but the power for good is of, or from the spir- 
itual, which is eternal. 

Acts 6-55. " He, being full of the Holy Ghost, 
looked up steadfastly unto heaven, and saw the glory 
of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of 
God." 

The distance from earth to heaven, in most texts, is 
this side the clouds, or within the atmosphere. In 
this text the distance may be, as good sense in read- 
ing it, within the firmament as described in Genesis. 
Paul in describing the coming of Christ with His 
saints, and the resurrection of those that sleep in 
Jesus, to ascend to meet the Lord in the air, should 
always be with Him. The place is literally in the air. 

In God's breathing into Adam the breath of life, 
as I understand it, it was nothing more than the air 
he breathed ; so with every living soul since, the air 
is God's breath, man is His make in body now as 
then, though different means are used in this genera- 
tion. Man's will can create nothing only as he wills 
to use the organs, or means, or way which nature, or 



1 26 HEAVEN. 

the Creator lias instituted to produce results ; so in 
spiritual things man cannot will good, and right, and 
blessings without using the truth and the knowledge 
which are in, or made known by, the commandments 
and teachings of Jesus Christ, and manifested by His 
temporal life. God has made man's spiritual life as 
certain as He has his temporal, by man's natural abil- 
ities, and God's supernatural teachings and command- 
ments and miracles, and that there should not be any 
failure He added a perfect body, soul and spirit, in 
the person of Jesus Christ, deelaring that in His name 
and way alone is deliverance from sin and misery; and 
His way was to live without sin, and all believers can 
have perfect salvation in the same way. Christ used 
wind, or air, to represent the way of operating on 
the souls, or minds, of men. Paul says, it is things 
not seen, or eternal, or spirit, that can contemplate, 
or know things seen or unseen. 

Acts 10-11. "And saw heaven opened, and a 
certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a 
great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to 
the earth.' ' 

Here is a visible, temporal object within the vision 
of Peter, as a means to instruct him into the knowl- 
edge of God's will respecting his mind twords the 
Gentiles and all men. The visible part of the vision 
was only important as a means to help to communi- 
cate the ideas, or knowledge, which would enable 
Peter to have a right state of mind towords all other 
minds ; so bodies in their parts are the means to com- 



HEAVEN. i 2/ 

municate mind to mind, and mind, or spirit is eternal. 

Romans 14-17- "For the kingdom of God is not 
meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and 
joy in the Holy Spirit. " 

Here is a text which literally declares the kingdom 
of God to be in mind, or spirit, which are things not 
seen, the body and soul are means of its growth, and 
of its manifestation. 

In the eighth and twelvth Chapters of Romans, is 

the heavenly state of mind, or spirit, or God's king- 
dom described, as by the letter of its existence in the 
invisible powers of the believer, and being manifest- 
ed, or witnessed to God, and the brethren, and the 
world, by the means of the body and soul, in, or by 

good words and works. 

Luke 17-21. "For behold, the kingdom of God, 
is within you, not in temporal things, but in things 
eternal." 2 Cor. 4-67; 18-5 and 1. 

1 Cor. 4-20. ! * For the kingdom of God is not in 
word but in power." 

Eph. 2-6. ' ' And hath raised us up together in 

heavenly places in Christ Jesus." 

7. "That in ages to come he might show the ex- 
ceeding riches of his grace, in his kindness towards 
us, through Christ Jesus." 

The power is of the idea, or spirit ; the body and 
soul the means of manifestation. That which was 
manifested in Paul's time did show the exceeding rich- 
es the believers possessed in joy and gladness, that 
we of later generations might know the fullness of 
joy there is in Christ Jesus. 



128 HEAVEN. 

Eph. 3-10. "To the intent that now unto the 
principalities and powers in heavenly places might be 
known by the church the manifold wisdom of God." 

11. "According to the eternal purpose which he 
purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord." 

Heavenly places, meaning law, government, intelli- 
gence, wisdom, all social enjoyments of family and 
friends. Or by the last best qualities of mind, or 
spirit, is brought out to view the glory of God and 
the purest good of man. 

Philip. 3-20. " For our conversation is in heaven ; 
from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord 
Jesus Christ." 

Heaven here means above, as heaven is above, the 
earth beneath; good and blessedness is above, evil 
and misery is below. "Heaven is my throne, the 
earth is my footstool." All good minds and spirits 
are in heaven and heaven is in them, and we look for 
Christ in all righteousness and holiness as possessor of 
heaven and earth. 

Col. 1-5. "For the hope which is laid up for you 
in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the 
truth of the gospel." 

Col. I-— 1 3. "Who hath delivered us from the pow- 
er of darkness, and hath translated us into the king- 
dom of his dear Son." 

Changed from ignorance to knowledge, from evil to 
good, from misery to blessedness, from hatred to 
love. 

1 Thes. 2-12. "That ye would walk worthy of 



HEAVEN. 1 29 

God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and 
glory." 

God's kingdom in opposition to the devils. 

Hebrews 9-24. "For Christ is not entered into 
the holy places made with hands, which are the fig- 
ures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to ap : 
pear in the presence of God for us." 

The holy places called figures, are the things seen, 
or temporal, acted out, or manifested through, or by 
the body and soul, as in the Mosaic law or ordinan- 
ces. In these outward acts there is much of heaven- 
ly appearances, but the heavenly things which rule 
these appearances are invisible knowledge, under- 
standing, judgment, conscience, and will, which are 
the heavenly things into which Christ has entered, and 
which in His fleshly life He purge from evil by living 
without sin. 



CHAPTER X. 

Christ's second coming. 

The second coming is a spiritual one. Paul says : 
" The commandment is spiritual." "After a carnal 
commandment the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth 
life." The commandment in the letter is the means 
or instrument to convey the idea, or mind, of Christ, 
or God to man. All the commandments from Adam 
to Jesus Christ have this double situation. The ma- 
terial part, of the language, which are the ' 'things 
seen," the idea, or mind, which are the "things not 
seen," of God or Christ, which is the spirit in which 
is the power of command, is in this way communicat- 
ed to the mind of man. Here are the two worlds, 
the world of sense and flesh and the spiritual world of 
mind and intelligence in loving obedience, in which 
we have the "first fruits" of obedience on the day of 
penticost and the generation following. Anti-christ 
shows itself in believers, by their looking after the 
body of Christ instead of His mind and spirit. 
Christ came in the flesh and manifiested God in the 
flesh, and finished all the work that could be done to 



CHRIST S SECOND COMING. i 3 I 

save man through ' 'things seen." The spiritual al- 
ways existed, as Christ says: V Before Abraham 
was, I am." As was manifested by the Bible saints, 
who acknowledged that the state of mind and heart 
was what made the command effectual to forgivness. 
Christ has made this plain by the oneness of believers 
with God, by His dwelling in Christ and Christ in 
them. Paul says: "But if the spirit of him which 
raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you ; he that 
raised up Christ from the dead shall quicken your 
mortal bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you." 
Christ Himself, as well as others, spoke of His com- 
ing in the clouds of heaven. To the spiritual minded 
believer, these clouds are the ignorance and misunder- 
standings of believers in their applying the reading of 
the scriptures to material things, instead of apprehend- 
ing spiritual meaning. 

Hence we want to look for Christ's spirit, not His 
body. Christ says: ' ' The flesh profiteth nothing : the 
words thdt I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they 
are life." We learn that every believer is the body, 
or temple, or house, or 'building in which Christ 
dwells, by His word and spirit. Paul says: " From 
henceforth I will know no man after the flesh, yea 
though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now 
know we him no more. He that hath ears to hear, 
let him hear." 

This spiritual coming of Christ is ever at the door 
of the heart of the saint, or sinner, that will take the 
pains, or labor to learn His commandments, and 



132 CHRIST S SECOND COMING. 

attain to the true idea which was intended to be con- 
veyed to the mind. And if in loving obedience to this 
heavenly wisdom, the senses and soul faculties are ex- 
ercised, salvation according to Jesus Christ is sure to 
follow. 

" My words they are spirit, and they are life. " 
This bodily coming of Christ is about the same 
kind of error as the Jews were in when he was on the 
earth, namely: that he was to establish a temporal 
kingdom. The church now can see the error of the 
church in former days, more readily than they can 
their own in their day. This is according to human 
nature which cannot attain to the spiritual, and the 
assertion of one writer in the Congregationalist, that 
the universal ideas, or belief of all nations in a future 
state, was sufficient evidence of a future state. This 
idea, or belief when founded on the revealed word of 
God, will be soon enough for our acceptance. 



CHAPTER XII 



HOLY CHILDREN. 



Psalms 139-15. "My substance was not hid from 
thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously 
wrought in the lowest part of the earth." 

1 Cor. 7-14. "For the unbelieving husband, is 
sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife, is 
sanctified by the husband, else were your children 
unclean, but now are they holy. " 

Isaiah 49-5. "Thus saith the Lord that formed 
me from the womb." 

54-13. "And all thy children shall be taught of 
the Lord, and great shall be the peace of thy children." 

2 Samuel 12-24. "And she bare a son, and he 
called his name Soloman, and the Lord loved him." 

25. " And he sent by the hand of Nathan the 
prophet, and called his -name Jedidiah, because of 
the Lord," 

Galations 1-15. "But when it pleased God who 
eperated me from my mother's womb." 



134 HOLY CHILDREN. 

Mark 10-14, "Suffer little children to come unto 
me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom 
of God." 

15. "Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of 
God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. ,, 

16. " And he took them up in his a r ms, and put 
his hands on them, and blessed them." 

Judges 13-24. "And the woman bear a son, and 
she called his name Sampson, and the child grew, 
and the Lord blessed him." 

25. "And the spirit of the Lord began to move 
him at times, in the camp of Dan." 

13-5. "For the child shall be a Nazerite unto 
God from the womb." 

There was so much approval of God about the in- 
fancy of Samuel, and his childhood, that no one will 
deny his holiness. 

Genesis 21-20. "And God was with the lad, and 
he grew and dwelt in the wilderness and became an 
archer." 

Luke 1-14. "And thou shalt have joy and glad- 
ness, and many shall rejoice at his birth." 

15. "For he shall be great in the sight of the 
Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink ; 
and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from 
his mother's womb." 

80. "And the child grew, and waxed strong in 
spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his 
shewing unto Israel." 



HOLY CHILDREN. J 35 

1 Timothy 5-14. " I will therefore that the young- 
er women marry, bear children, guide the house, give 
none occasion to the adversary to speak reproach- 
fully." 

4-12. "Let no man despise thy youth; but be 
thou an example of the believers, in word, in conver- 
sation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. " 

2 Timothy 1-5. " When I call to rememberance 
the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in 
thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice ; and 
I am persuaded that in thee also/' 

Ezekiel 4-14. "Then said I, Ah Lord God ! be- 
hold, my soul hath not been polluted : for from my 
youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which 
dieth of itself, or is torn in peices ; neither came there 
abominable flesh into my mouth." 

Genesis 33-5. "And he said, The children which 
God hath graciously given thy servant." 

Genesis 21-8. "And the child grew, and was 
weaned : and Abraham made a great feast the same 
day that Isaac was weaned. " 

Exodus 2-2. "And when she saw him that he was 
a goodly child, she hid him three months." 

Judges 11-36. "And she said unto him, My fa- 
ther, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, 
do to me according to that which hath proceeded out 
of thy mouth." 

Ruth 4-13. " The Lord gave her conception, and 
she bear a son." 



I36 HOLY CHILDREN. 

I Kings 3-7, "And now, O Lord my God, thou 
hast made thy servant king instead of David my fa- 
ther: and I am but a little child : I know not how to 
go out or come in." Isaiah 65-23. 

9. "Give therefore thy servant an understanding 

heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between 
good and bad." 

1 Kings 13-2. "Thus saith the Lord; Behold, a 
child shall be born unto the house of David." 

This text is a declaration, or prophesy, that a child 
should be born. This shows that the Creator notices 
the beginning of children with approbation, so we 
conclude they are His offspring — not the devils. Sol- 
omon must have been on the Lord's side, in request- 
ing God to give him an understanding heart. This is 
gained by knowing and keeping God's command- 
ments. The affectionate heart comes by nature, born 
with the body. 

2 Kings 4-19. "And he said unto his father, My 
head, my head ! And he said to a lad, Carry him to 

his mother." 

28. " Then she said, Did I desire a son of my 
Lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?" 

This child was of the Lord by promise. Can there 
be sin, or depravity in it? In this work of promise 
and fulfillment does the devil be present, as he was 
with Job and the sons of God as they presented them 
selves before the Lord. In Job's party they were all 
of the age of accountability. In the party of the 
Shunammite woman there was one that had not arriv- 
ed at accountability. 



HOLY CHILDREN. 1 37 

Isaiah 7-15. "Butter and honey shall he eat, that 
he may know to refuse evil and choose the good." 

Jeremiah 1-5. "Before I formed thee in the belly 
I knew thee ; and before thou earnest forth out of the 
womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet 
unto the nations." 

Matthew 1-20, "Behold, the angel of the Lord 
appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou 
son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy 
wife : for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy 
Ghost." 

Luke I- 1 3. "And thy wife Elizabeth shall bear 
thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John." 

14. "And thou shalt have joy and gladness, and 
many shall rejoice at his birth." 

15. " For he shall be great in the sight of the 
Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink ; 
and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from 
his mother's womb." 

80. "And the child grew, and waxed strong in 
spirit." 

These births must be of the Lord, and in righteous- 
ness. 

If mothers would study the character and sayings 
of these scripture mothers, it would very much ad- 
vance their minds and feelings towards that state of 
soul which would influence their offspring to the same 
kind of feelings as they themselve have. 

Exodus 1-2 ; 1 Samuel 1-19. Hannah seeks and 
labors in mind, and feelings, and affections to be right 
and good. 



I38 HOLY CHILDREN. 

Luke I. In the holy utterances of Zechariah, 
Mary and Elizabeth show how mothers ma) T be co- 
workers with God, in the formation of spirits as well 
as bodies. When mothers shall perform this work 
and arrive at this state of mind and feelings, Christ's 
spiritual kingdom will be established in the beginning 
of the body, soul and spirit, and will, like these child- 
ren, grow up in the favor of God and man. If it was 
necessary for Christ to be thus surrounded by such 
heavenly influences, even from His beginning, how 
much more is it necessary for all of us to be thus sur- 
rounded even from the first thought and action. 

Luke 9-48. * ' Whosoever shall receive this child 
in my name receivethme; and whosoever shall receive 
me, receiveth him that sent me," 

Deuteronomy 1—39. "Moreover your little ones, 
which ye said should be a prey, and your children, 
which in that day had no knowledge between good 
and evil, they shall go in." 

Deuteronomy 6-7. "And thou shalt teach them 
dilligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them 
when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walk- 
est by the way, and when thou liest down, and when 
thou risest up." 

Psalm 127-3. "Lo, children are a heritage of the 
Lord : and the fruit of the womb is his reward." 

Psalm 128-3. " Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine 
by the sides of thine house : thy children like olive 
plants round about thy table." 



HOLY CHILDREN. J 39 

To man was committed the propagation of himself 
materially in Adam, so in Jesus Christ he has com- 
mitted to man the spiritual growth and creation. (It 
takes man and woman to be man.) 

Psalm 139-15. " My substance was not hid from 
thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously 
wrought in the lowest parts of the earth." 

What man can know of this hidden, secret work in 
right and truth, is the same as God's knowledge, which 
makes man in His image and likeness. 

Genesis 33-5. "And he said, The children which 
God hath graciously given thy servant." 

Genesis 21-8. "And the child grew, and was 
weaned : and Abraham made a great feast the same 
day Isaac was weaned." 

Exodus 2-2. "And when she saw him that he 
was a goodly child, she hid him three months." 

Genesis 21-20. "And God was with the lad; and 
he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an 
archer." 

Ezekiel 4-14. "Then said I, Ah Lord God! be- 
hold, my soul hath not been polluted : for from my 
youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which 
dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces ; neither came there 
abominable flesh into my mouth." 

Judges 11-36. "And she said unto him, My fa- 
ther, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do 
to me that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth." 

Ruth 4-13. "The Lord gave her conception, and 
she bear a son." 



140 HOLY CHILDREN. 

We see God does his work by the agency of men, 
so He does His spiritual work by man's natural, or 
sensible, functions and soul faculties, in the use of 
which facts and truths are acquired to form the under- 
standing and judgment which makes that wisdom 
which we are directed to ask of God, which He giv- 
eth liberally and upbraideth not. 

Isaiah 49-5. "Thus saith the Lord that formed 
me from the womb." 

54-13. "And all thy children shall be taught of 
the Lord, and great shall be the peace of thy 
children/' 

2 Sam. 12-24. "And she bare a son, and he call- 
ed his name Solomon, and the Lord loved him." 

2 Samuel 12-25. "And he sent by the hand of 
Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, 
because of the Lord." 

Judges 13-24. "And the woman bear a son; and 
she called his name Sampson: and the child grew, and 
the Lord blessed him." 

Judges 13-5. " For the child shall be a Nazarite 
unto God from the womb." 

1 Samuel 2-18. "But Samuel ministered before 
the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod." 

The case of Samuel is a full sample, and conse- 
quence of such mothers as Hannah, all mothers , 
should study these Bible mothers, if they would be 
blessings to their children, and would wish to have 
their children blessings to themselves. 



HOLY CHILDREN. I4I 

1 Ccr. 7-14. "For the unbelieving husband is 
sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife sanc- 
tified by the husband : else were your children un- 
clean; but now are they holy." 

Gal. 1— 1 5 . "But when it pleased God, who sep- 
erated me from my mother's womb/' 

Mark 10-14. " Suffer little children to come unto 
me, and forbid them not ; for of such is the kingdom 
of God." 

15. " Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of 
God as a little child, he shall not enter therein." 

16. " And he took them up in his arms, and put 
his hands on them, and blessed them." 

From these texts mothers may more than hope 
that they are doing God service, but the end of these 
children is that they grow up to a blessed, righteous 
state of body, soul and spirit. This God will do 
through mothers that have a righteous, blessed state 
of body, soul and spirit. 

Luke 1-14. " And thou shalt have joy and glad- 
ness ; and many shall rejoice at his berth." 

15. "For he shall be great in the sight of the 
Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink ; 
and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, evenVrom 
his mother's womb." 

80. " And the child grew, and waxed strong in 
spirit, and was in the desert till the day of his show 
ing unto Israel." 

1 Timothy 5-14. "I will therefore that the young- 
er women marry, bear children, guide the house, give 



142 HOLY CHILDREN. 

none occasion to the adversary to speak reproach- 
fully." 

4-12. "Let no man despise thy youth; be thou 
an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, 
in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity." 

2 Timothy 1-5. "When I call to remembrance 
*the unfained faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in 
thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice ; and 
I am persuaded that in thee also." 

Here is reference to Timothy's early training. 

Romans 9-1 1. " For the children being not yet 
born, neither having done any good or evil, that the 
purpose of God according to election might stand, 
not of works, but of him that calleth." 

In the knowledge parents may acquire in the fore- 
going texts, they may be encouraged in the duties 
and privileges of the family relations, although there 
is much of it belonging to the tree of good and evil, 
yet the Godly-wise mother will know how to bring 
good out of evil, so that the good will constantly pre- 
dominate over the evil, and it shall be destroyed by 
the power of that spirit of Jesus Christ who came 
into the world to destroy the works of the devil. 

The first promise in the Bible is to mothers, and 
they may be greatly encouraged by it to do all in 
their power to bring about their fulfillment, that the 
"generation of vipers" shall grow less till there is 
none at all. There is great encouragement from texts 
of scripture for parents to have their children from 
infancy, made partakers of saving grace, and as they 



ANTICHRIST. I43 

learn one truth after another, their hearts and minds 
may acquire that spiritual knowledge, which by love 
and obedience shall make them of the kingdom of 
heaven. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



ANTICHRIST. 



I John 2- 1 8. " Little children it is the last time : 
and as ye have heard that antichrist will come, even 
now are there many antichrists; whereby we know 
that it is the last time." 

22. " Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus 
is the Christ ? He is antichrist that denieth the Fa- 
ther and the Son." 

4-3. "And every spirit that confesseth not that 
Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God: and 
this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard 
that it should come ; and even now already is it in 
the world." 



144 ANT1CHRISR. 

2 John 1-7. "For many deceivers are entered 
into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is 
come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an anti- 
christ. " 

2 Peter 2-1. " There shall be false teachers among 
you, who shall privily bring in damnable heresies, 
even denying the Lord that bought them." 

18. " For when they speak great swelling words 
of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, 
through much wantonness, those that were clean es- 
caped from them who live in error." 

2 Thessalonians 2-4. " Who opposeth and exalt- 
eth himself above all that is called God, or that is 
worshiped : so that he as God sitteth in the temple of 
God, shewing himself that he is God." 

8, "And then shall that Wicked be revealed, 
whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his 
mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his 
coming." 

Dan. 7-25. "And he shall speak great words 
against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints 
of the Most High, and think to change times and 
laws." 

Isaiah 37-23. "Whom hast thou reproached and 
blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy 
voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against 
the Holy One of Israel." 

Dan. 8-25. "And through his policy also he shall 
cause craft to prosper in his hand ; and he shall mag- 
nify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy 



ANTICHRIST. 1 45 

many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of 
princes; but he shall be broken without hand." 

11-28. "Then shall he return unto his land with 
great riches ; and his heart shall be against the holy 
covenant ; and he shall do exploits, and return to his 
own land." 

36. " And the King shall do according to his will; 
and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above 
every god, and shall speak marvelous things against 
the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indigna- 
tion be accomplished." 

Rev, 13-5. "And there was given unto him a 
mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and 
power was given unto him to continue forty and two 
months." 

14. "And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth 
by the means of those miracles which he had power 
to do in the sight of the beast ; saying to them that 
dwell on the earth, that they should make an image 
to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and 
did live." 

John in his first epistle, represents unbelievers by 
the flesh, the world, and lust, and pride, and anti- 
christ, were such that had known Christ, and had left, 
or denied, the spiritual, or the unction from the Holy 
One, as he calls it in verse 20th, as the only power to 
govern, or direct, the exercises of soul and body, 
but take those faculties of desires, hopes, fears, affec- 
tions and imaginations which belong to the flesh, not 
allowing Christ power, or spiritualities, as being in 



I46 ANTIGHR1ST. 

the knowledge, understanding and judgment ; from 
which attributes of mind results that wisdom which 
is from God, through Jesus Christ, he being the first 
man that manifested this way of this spiritual ruling 
of the senses, the soul and the world. These deceiv- 
ers, or antichrists, would be ruled by the material part 
of man, and use so much of the spiritual as was nec- 
essary to make them crafty, cunning and wise after a 
worldly way, that they might make a show in the 
flesh. This applys to all those believers who think 
more of lucious living for the body, than they do of 
an honest wise mind, as the best source of enjoyment. 

Who would rather be governers and masters in the 
material world, than to be true and righteous workers 
in thought, faith, love, and good and wise intelligence 
for their own good, and the good of others, which is 
the highest glory of God. 

John says, " Who confesseth not that Jesus Christ 
is come in the flesh." This is a deceiver, and an anti- 
christ. God is a spirit, Jesus Christ is a spirit, His 
body has gone to His Heavenly Father. On the day 
of penticost, Christ's spiritual kingdom was begun to 
be manifested through the bodies of men ; this was 
being done by their ignorance being removed, and 
knowledge taking its place, their understanding being 
enlarged and enlightened into the right use of all nat- 
ural faculties, and of all revealed truths of God's 
scriptures, and their own experience. The end of 
Christ's heavenly kingdom is to make righteous, bless- 
ed bodies, souls and spirits ; as was done on the day 



ANTICHRIST. 1 4/ 

of penticost. This first manifestation of the spiritual 
kingdom miracuously, was necessary to show man 
God's way of life. 

Jesus Christ fulfilled in the flesh all that man wa$ 
required of God's commandments, in nature, as well 
as in revelation ; by this manifestation he showed that 
man by nature and revelation, might do so to, 
Adam failed to do this by disregarding the revealed 
word of God. But God ceased not to labor with, 
and for man, till he' had finished not only the material 
part, but in Jesus Christ and the day of penticost, 
brought fully to light, and to the mind of man, that 
spiritual power which was in the beginning intended to 
rule and guide man in body, soul and spirit. This is 
to be saved by the spirit, and to be antichrist was to 
deny that this spirit did not come in Jesus Christ, 
because he did not set up a temporal kingdom. They 
could not understand that this spiritual power in the 
mind of man was able to direct in all public govern- 
ment as well as in private, and that when all men 
shall be filled with Christ's spirit they shall have all 
knowledge to do good and right, and will have no 
need of boasting fleshly teachers. 

2 Peter 2-1. "But there were false prophets also 
among the people, even as their shall be false teachers 
among you, who shall privily bring in damnable heri- 
sies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and 
bring upon themselves swift distruction. " 

In i Peter and Thessalonians 2-4, false teachers 
who endeavor to lead away men and women from the 



I.48 ANTICHRISR. 

truth, and make schisms and sects, by setting up ma- 
terial visible things as tests of faith and belief, mak- 
ing bodily actions as the acceptance in heavenly 
things, making the body and feelings the god, and 
worshiping the created instead of the Creator ; mak- 
ing righteousness in works of the flesh, instead of 
works of mind and spirit, and all this done in pride 
and bosting making affections, desires and feelings and 
idols, and not making the knowledge, understanding 
and judgment, by which righteousness is attained, 
the end, but making them subservient to the sensual as 
an end, thus ending in the flesh instead of the spirit, 
whose motto is, if learning and thought does not 
bring material good, it is of no use. When this mak- 
ing of the spiritual to serve the material, for the sake 
of the material, is fully carried out, then shall its 
wickedness be manifest then shall it be suddenly and 
without remedy destroyed by the truly spiritual mind- 
ed souls, which are the way, or means, by which God 
declares the fiery word of His mouth, which shall 
destroy all antichrist in its various connections with 
the world, the flesh and satan. 

When this spiritual power of Jesus Christ is fully 
realized in the minds and hearts of believers, it will be 
that heavenly light which abolished night and dark- 
ness from their souls, and shall consume all that cun- 
ning, crafty imaginations of lusts, fleshly feelings, 
pride of power over men and riches. It will make 
all the material subservient to the spiritual and man's 
hopes, fears, desires and imaginations, will end in the 



ANTICHRIST. 1 49 

spirit, which is God in Father, Son and Holy Ghost. 

It is evident that this antichrist had its beginning 
with the world. Adam was antichrist when he fol- 
lowed that which was made of dust, instead of that 
made by commandment. The invention of men, by 
seeking through atonements and material sacrifices to 
gain the favor of an offended God, was antichrist, 
because they sought in the material that which only 
could be found in using the dust, material, to attain 
to the true idea which the carnal commandment con- 
veyed. It is antichrist to be thinking of, and trusting 
to Christ's body, in which the Holy Spirit dwelt while 
He was here on earth. His body now is the bodies 
of believers in whom that same spirit now dwells in 
all the fullness of God, so far as their salvation and 
the glory of God requires. 

Be ye holy, for I am holy. Be ye perfect, even as 
your Father which is in heaven is perfect. This holi- 
ness and perfection must be, according to the nature 
of God and man, according to the nature of the Cre- 
ator and the created. 

In Daniel, Isaiah and Revelations this same lying, 
boastful, fleshy way of living, or being, is spoken of, 
and which only results in dishonoring God, and the 
distruction of those who thus exercise themselves in 
this w T ay. 

It may be that this antichrist is by the zeal and va- 
riance of denominations of the church, and the costly 
church buildings, and the various cunning, deceitful 
w r ays that are employed to obtain the money and 



I50 ANTIGHRIST. 

necessary worldly means to continue that work of 
soul and body, without which the church membership 
could not be edified, or increased. 

As the body is first, so we may use temporal means , 
first as an influence to secure the attention of unbe- 
lievers, that we may present to their minds that 
which is first in importance, the spiritual, without 
which they cannot attain to that blessedness of which 
their being is capable. 

The great idea of Christ as a Savior, as a God, was 
in His invisible powers, His inmortality, His right- 
eous wise mindedness, His spirituality, and these were 
all things not seen, so they are eternal. 

John, as well as all the other apostles, evidently ex- 
pected the body of Christ to return to the earth in 
this bodily, earthly sense view of Christ — is there not 
a little of the antichrist in it? As Christ taught His 
disciples that He would be in them, and they in Him, 
and all in God. This must be in a mind, or spiritual 
sense, or meaning, and as the apostle Paul says in 
Eph. 5-23, " Christ is the head of the church, and 
he is the Savior of the body," and in Col. 1-18, 
"And he is the head of the body, the church : who 
is the begining, the first born from the dead : that in 
all things he might have the preeminance." 

This spiritual possession of the bodies and minds of 
believers by Christ's spirit, seems to fulfill all the re- 
quirements of the promises, or of salvation, and it 
would be superfluous for Christ's body to be here with 
believers. 



MOTHERS. 151 

Eph. 1-22. "And hath put all things under his 
feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the 
church." 

23. "Which is his body, the fullness of him that 
fillethallinall." 

Christ is the spirit of all matter, especially of that 
matter organized as it is in man's body and soul, and 
if body and soul accepts and submits to the require- 
ments of this all prevailing spiritual power, it shall 
have life everlasting. We know His commandments 
are life everlasting. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

MOTHERS. 

In the Primary Teacher's Monthly of July, 1878, 
page 174, is an article in regard to a mother's care of 
her child. It says : "Said a Mother to me one day: 
1 When my children were young I thought the very 
best thing I could do for them was to give them my- 
self. So I spared no pains to talk with them, to read 



1$2 MOTHERS. 

to them, to pray with them, to be a loving friend and 
companion to my children. I had to neglect my 
house many times. I had no time to indulge myself 
in many things which I should like to do, I was so 
busy in adorning their minds and cultivating their 
hearts best affections. I could not adorn their bodies 
in fine clothes, though I kept them neat and comfort- 
able at all times. I have my reward. My sons are 
ministers of the gospel, my grown up daughter a 
lovely, christian woman. I have plenty of time to 
sit down and rest, plenty of time to keep my house 
in perfect order, plenty of time to indulge myself in 
many ways, besides going about my Master's business 
whenever he has need of me. I have a thousand 
beautiful memories of their childhood to comfort me. 
Now they have gone out in the world. I have the 
consciousness of having done all that I could to make 
them ready for whatever work God should call them 
to do. I gave them the best I could myself/ 

The above is a good pattern, or sample, of what a 
mother should be. It shows what the "sphere" of a 
mother is. The mother must know what mind, or 
spirit is, in order to be able to generate in the bodies 
and souls of her offspring the "Christ way" of knowl- 
edge, understanding and judgment, according to the 
capacity of the infant, the child, the youth,, the truth, 
the right, the good should be kept before the senses, 
the feelings, or soul faculties, that the mind, or spirit, 
may grow with the body, which is the new, or second 
birth. Every new "truth" which knowledge acquires 



MOTHERS. 153 

is a spiritual birth, a "growth in grace." 

The Creator, in Moses and Jesus Christ, has reveal- 
ed the "way" by teachings and example, so that 
mothers may be the means, or instruments, of the 
spiritual birth, as they are of the material birth. This 
motherly spirit work must be done before the nations 
will be given to Christ. Mothers must feel the re 
sponsibility for the righteous blessed spirit for their 
children, which is the end for which bodies are creat- 
ed. Who shall be able to say or declare the wrong, 
or misery a mother is the means, or occasion of, who 
enters upon the beginning of her work without being 
fully prepared by a wise spiritual understanding to 
finish it. It is being Godlywise to know the end 
from the beginning. This obligation rests on all who 
claim to be created in the image of the Creator. 

This is nothing more nor less than the Creator's 
"way," which He has instituted to continue that cre- 
ation which He began in the first pair. What a glori- 
ous thought that we who have so weak a beginning 
should have such a heavenfy end. That we should 
be coworkers with the Creator to do His will. Be 
the "way," or the means to manifest Godliness, or to 
show forth in righteous thought and action His justice, 
mercy and love. 

This state of heart and life cannot be attained with- 
out much labor and study of mind and thought, on 
our material constitution and nature, as well as on our 
soul faculties and spiritual attributes. This might be 
done in the family, as in the case of the story at the 



1 54 MOTHERS. 

head of this chapter. But we might have as much 
money invested in schools for girls as there is for boys. 
For those who have not the money or opportunity to 
gain the training, or education, necessary to such a 
state of mind, or spirit, there ought to be free schools 
suitable for such purpose of learning as the object re- 
quired. These schools should be so fully en- 
dowed that tuition and board would be nearly or quite 
free. There should be a full corps of professors as 
teachers and motherly matrons, that there might be 
the experience of others to help teachers, if it could 
be useful. 

This is the needed reform of the time. Lest while 
we are trying to convert the heathen, our own child- 
ren should be as bad as they. There are women in 
the church, and out of it, who could, if they would y 
unite together with money, hearts and minds to begin 
with such an institution, and help themselves in their 
own sphere of work. Which would be for their own 
best good, as well as for mans. There ought to be 
such a state of mind in all the progenitors of our race. 
And in the circumstances of children coming into the 
would, that all should be the seed of the woman and 
not the seed of the serpent. 

Mathew 3-7. ' ' O generation of vipers, who hath 
warned you to flee from the wrath to come." 

The domineering ways of man appear in the gener- 
al idea, or prevaling opinion that woman's highest 
good, or glory, is best realized by her working, and 
seeking man's good, or glory. This may be true, but 



MOTHERS, 155 

it must be realized by work done in the nursery (and 
by the bible rule I understand this continues till the 
infant is thirteen years old,) and the spiritual, or mind 
part is of the greatest importance, for to have a 
healthy body, and blessed state of feelings, there 
must be right exercises of the soul faculties, and right 
knowledge, right understanding, and right judgment, 
these attributes being attained by the means of the 
senses and soul faculties are "last'' in time, but 
"first" in importance, for in, or by them, the "mind 
of Christ, and the spirit of God," works out the sal- 
vation of soul and senses, or body, for there is no 
time in the existence of the body, that by the moth- 
er, and the infant mind there can, and may exist an 
influence for good, and not for evil, and at the earliest 
dawn of reason the infant may know the difference 
between good and evil. 

1 Cor. 2-14. "Else were your children unclean, 
but now are they holy." 



CHAPTER XV. 

THE TRUE BELIEVER WHILST IN A LIVING BODY, 

2 Con 8-21. "Providing for honest things, not 
only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of 
men/' 

9-6, " But this I say, he that soweth sparingly, 
shall reap also sparingly ; but he which soweth boun- 
tifully shall reap also bountifully." 

10-3. "For though we walk in the flesh, we do 
not war after the flesh/' 

4* " For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, 
but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong 
holds." 

5* "Casting down imaginations, and every high 
thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of 
God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the 
obedience of Christ." 

17. "But he that glorieth, let him glory in the 
Lord." 

1 1-2. "Fori am jealous over you with godly 



TRUE BELIEVER. I 57 

jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, 
that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ." 

3. "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent 
beguiled Eve through his subtility, so your minds 
should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in 
Christ.' ' 

2 Con 12-15. "And I will very gladly spend and 
be spent for you ; though the more abundantly I love 
you, the less I be loved." 

13-4. "For though he was crucified through 
weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For 
we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him 
by the power of God toward you." 

5. "Examine yourselves, whether you be in the 
faith ; prove your ownselves, how that Jesus Christ is 
in you, except ye be reprobates." 

11. " Finaly, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be 
of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace ; and 
the God of love and peace shall be with you." 

Gal. 1-4. "Who gave himself for our sins, that 
he might deliver us from this present evil world, ac- 
cording to the will of God and our Father." 

16. "To reveal his son in me, that I might preach 
him among the heathen ; immediately I conferred not 
with flesh and blood." 

2-20. ? 1 1 am crucified with Christ : nevertheless 
I live ; 3 T et not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life 
which I now live in the flesh I live bv the faith of the 

Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for 

«~, ^ " 
me. 



I58 TRUE BELIEVER. 

2-16. " Knowing that a man is not justified by 
the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, 
even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might 
be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the 
works of the law : for by the works of the law shall 
no flesh be justified/' 

2-19. "For I through the law am dead to the 
law, that I might live unto God." 

3-26. "For ye are all the children of God by 
faith in Christ Jesus/' 

That is by the operation of mind and spirit. All 
the differences pertaining to the material part of man 
such as goverments, customs and usuages, sacrifices, 
atonements and even sexual differences are excluded 
from the kingdom of heaven. All ideas and knowl- 
edge are the same in the mind of man as in woman. 

Galatians 4-26. "But Jerusalem which is above is 
free." 

Mind and spirit is above, body and soul below. 

Galatians 3-21. "For as many of you as have 
been baptized into Christ have put on Christ/' 

3-28. "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is 
neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor fe- 
male: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." 

3-29. "And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abra- 
ham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." 

4-4. " But when the fullness of time was come, 
God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made un- 
der the law." 

4-7. " Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but 



TRUE BELIEVER. 1 59 

a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through 
Christ.' ' 

4-14. "And my temptation which was in my flesh 
ye despised not, nor rejected ; but received me as 
an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus." 

3-29. " But as then he that was born after the 
flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, 
even so it is now." 

Galatians 5-1. "Stand fast therefore in the liberty 
wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not en- 
tangled again with the yoke of bondage." 

5. " For we through the Spirit wait for the hope 
of righteousness by faith." 

14. " For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even 
this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." 

16. "This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye 
shall not fullfill the lusts of the flesh." 

22. " But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, 
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith," 

23. " Meakness, temperance: against such there 
is no law." 

Galatians 6-2. " Bear ye one another's burdens, 
and so fulfill the law of Christ." 

5. " For every man shall bear his own burden." 

8. " For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the 
flesh reap corruption : but he that soweth to the Spir- 
it shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." 

14. " But God forbid that I should glory, save in 
the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the 
world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." 



l60 TRUE BELIEVER. 

1 8. "Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus 
Christ be with your spirit/ 7 

Ephesians 1-3. " Blessed be the God and Father 
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with 
all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. 

4. "According as he hath chosen us in him before 
the foundation of the world, that we should be holy 
and without blame before him in love. 

9. '• Having made known unto us the mystery of 
his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath 
purposed in himself: 

10. "That in the dispensation of the fullness of 
times he might gather together in one all things in 
Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on 
earth; even in him. 

17. "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the 
Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wis- 
dom and revelation in the knowledge of him : 

18. "The eyes of your understanding being en- 
lightened ; that ye may know what is the hope of his 
calling, and what is the riches of the glory of his in- 
heritance in the saints. 

22. "And hath put all things under his feet, and 
gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 

23. " Which is his body, the fullness of him that 
filleth all in all. *' 

Ephesians 2-1. "And you hath he quickened, 
who were dead in trespasses and sins. 

5. "Even when we were dead in sins, hath quick- 
ened us together with Christ, 



TRUE BELIEVER. l6t 

6. "And hath raised us up together, and made us 
sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. 

8. " For by grace are ye saved through faith; and 
that not of yourselves : it is the gift of God. 

22. "In whom ye also are builded together for a 
habitation of God through the spirit." 

Ephesians 3—17. "That Christ may dwell in your 
hearts by faith ; that ye, being rooted and grounded 
in love, 

18, "May be able to comprehend with all saints 
what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and 
height; 

19. "And to know the love of Christ, which pass- 
eth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the 
fullness of God." 

Ephesians 4-1, "I therefore, the prisoner of the 
Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vo- 
cation wherewith ye are called. 

6. "One God and Father of all, who is above all, 
and through all, and in you all 

13. "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and 
of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect 
man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness 
of Christ 

15. " But speaking the truth in love, may grow 
up into him in all things, which is the head, even 
Christ's. 

24. "And that ye put on the new man, which 
after God is created in righteousness and true holi- 
ness." 



!g2 TRUE BELIEVER. 

Ephesians 5-26, "That he might sanctify and 
cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 

27. "That he might present it to himself a glori- 
ous church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such 
thing; but that it should be holy and without blenv 

ish." 

Ephesians 6-4. ' 4 And ye fathers, provoke not your 
children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture 
and admonition of the Lord. 

12, " For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, 
but against principalities, against powers, against the 
rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual 
wickedness in high places." (Or heavenly places, as 
in Chapter 1-3.) 

Philippians 1-9. "And this I pray, that your love 
may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in 
all judgment." 

Philippians 2-4. ' ' Look not every man on his own 
things, but every man also on the things of others. 

5. " Let this mind be in you, which was also in 

Christ Jesus." 

Philippians 3-3. "For we are the circumcision, 
which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in 
Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. 

9. "And be found in him, not having mine own 
righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is 
through the faith of Christ, the righteouness which is 
of God by faith. 

11. "If by any means I might attain unto the 

resurrection of the dead. 



TRUE BELIEVER. 

21. "Who shall change our vile body, that it may 
be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to 
the working whereby he is able even to subdue all 
things unto himself. " 

Philippians 4-1. "Therefore my brethren dearly 
beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand 
fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved. 

7. "And the peace of God, which passeth all 
understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds 
through Christ Jesus. 

9. "Those things, which ye have both learned, 
and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the 
God of peace shall be<with you." 

Colossians 1-12. "Giving thanks unto the Father, 
which hath made us meet to be partakers of the in- 
heritance of the saints in light : 

13. "Who hath delivered us from the power of 
darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of 
his dear Son. 

15. "Who is the image of the invisable God, the 
first born of every creature. 

21. "And vou, that were sometime alienated and 
enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath 
he reconciled. 

22. "In the body of his flesh through death, to 
present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable 
in his sight. 

26. " Even the mystery which hath been hid from 
ages and from generations, but now is made manifest 
to his saints. 



1 64 TRUE BELIEVER. 

28. "Whom we preach, warning every man, and 

Colossians 2-1 1. "In whom also ye are circumcis- 
ed with the circumcision made without hands, in put- 
ting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the cir- 
cumcision of Christ: 

12. "Buried with him in baptism, wherein also 
ye are risen with him through the faith of the opera- 
tion of God, who hath raised him from the dead. ,, 

Colossians 3—1. "If ye then be risen with Christ, 
seek those things which are above, where Christ sit- 
teth on the right hand of God. 

9. "Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have 
put off the old man with his deeds ; 

10. "And have put on the new man, which is re- 
newed in knowledge after the image of him that cre- 
ated him. 

15. "And let the peace of God rule in your 
hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; 
and be ye thankful. 

24. * * Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive 
the reward of the inheritance : for ye serve the Lord 
Christ. ,, 

1 Thessalonians 1-9. "And how ye turned to 
God from idols to serve the living and true God ; 

10. " And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom 
he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered 
us from wrath to come." 

1 Thessalonians 2-12. "That ye would walk worthy 
of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and 
glory. 



TRUE BELIEVER. 165 

10. "Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily 
and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves 
among you that believe. 

16. " Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that 
they might be saved, to fill up their sins always : for 
the wrath is come upon them tc the uttermost. 

19. " For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of 
rejoicing ? Are not even ye in the presence of our 
Lord Jesus Christ at his coming ? 

20. " For ye are our glory and joy." 

1 Thessalonians 3-13. "To the end he may stablish 
your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even 
our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ 
with all his saints." 

1 Thessalonians 4-18. "Wherefore comfort one 
another with these words." 

1 Thessalonians 5-1. "But of the times and the 
seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto 
you. 

4. "But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that 
that day should overtake you as a theif. 

5. "Ye are all the children of light, and the 
children of the day : we are not of the night, nor of 
darkness. 

10. "Who died for us, that, whether we wake or 
sleep, we should live together with him. 

15. " See that none render evil for evil unto any 
man ; but ever follow^ that which is good, both among 
yourselves, and to all men. 

23. "And the very God of peace sanctify you 



[66 TRUE BELIEVER. 

wholly ; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul 
and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of 
our Lord Jesus Christ/ 7 

2 Thessalonians i~io. "When he shall come to 
be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all 
them that believe (because our testimony among you 
was believed) in that day. 

12. " That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ 
may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to 
the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ, 

i Timothy 1-5. "Now the end of the command- 
ment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good 
concience, and of faith unfained. 

15. "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all 
acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to 
save sinners; of whom I am chief." 

1 Timothy 4-8. " For bodily exercise profiteth 
little : but godliness is profitable unto all things, hav- 
ing promise of the life that now is, and of that which 
is to come." 

1 Timothy 5-8. "Rut if any provide not for his 
own, and specially for those of his own house, he 
hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. 

12. "Having damnation, because they have cast 
off their first faith." 

1 Timothy 6-6. "But godliness with contentment 
is great gain. 

7. " For we brought nothing into this world, and 
it is certain we can carry "nothing out. 

11. " But thou, O man of God, flee these things; 



TRUE BELIEVER. j 6/ 

and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, 
patience, meekness. 

14. " That thou keep this commandment without 
spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord 
Jesus Christ. ,, 

2 Timothy i-io. " But is now made manifest by 
the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who hath 
abolished death, and hath brought life and immortali- 
ty to light through the gospel." 

2 Timothy 2-1 1. " It is a faithful saying : For if 
we be dead with him, we shall also live with him : 

12. " If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: 
if we deny him, he also will deny us." 

2 Timothy 3-15. "And that from a child thou 
hast known the holy Scriptures, which are able to 
make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is 
in Christ Jesus. 

16. "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, 
and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correc- 
tion, for instruction in righteousness: 

17. "That the man of God may be perfect, thor- 
oughly furnished unto all good works." 

2 Timothy 4-1. " I charge thee therefore before 
God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the 
quick and the dead at his appearing and his king- 
dom. 

7. "I have fought a good fight, I have finished 
my course, I have kept the faith : 

8. " Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of 
righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, 



1 68 TRUE BELIEVER. 

shall give me at that day : and not to me only, but 
unto all them also that love his appearing.' ' 

Titus 1-2. "In hope of eternal life, which God, 
that cannot lie, promised before the world began : 

3. "But hath in due times manifested his word 
through preaching, which is committed unto me ac- 
cording to the commandment of God our Savior/' 

In texts speaking of Christ's coming, or of His com- 
ing with all His saints, is fulfilled in believers by their 
growing in knowledge and understanding of all that 
pertains to His spiritual kingdom. When believers 
attain to that highth, and debth, and length, and 
breadth of all the fullness of God, in spiritual, or mind 
intelligence, that makes the heavenly wisdom, fulfills 
these texts. All the saints are present in the mind of 
the intelligent believer. 

Titus 3-4. "But after that the kindness and love 
of God our Savior toward man appeared, 

3. 4 * Not by works of righteousness which we have 
done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the 
washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy 
Ghos.t." 

Philemon 1-16. " Not now as a servant, but above 
a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but 
how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in 
the Lord?" 

Hebrews 1-1. "God, who at sundry times and in 
divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by 
the prophets, 

2. " Hath in these last days spoken unto us by 



TRUE BELIEVER, 1 69 

his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, 
by whom also he made the worlds." 

Hebrews 2— 1 1. " For both he that sanctifieth and 
they who are sanctified are all of one: for which 
cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 

14. " Forasmuch then as the children are partak- 
ers of flesh and blood, he also himself took part of 
the same ; that through death he might destroy him 
that had the power of death, that is, the devil." 

Hebrews 3-6. " But Christ as a son over his own 
house ; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confi- 
dence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the 
end. 

18. "And to whom sware he that they should not 
enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? " 

Hebrews 4-1 1. "Let us labour therefore to enter 
into that rest, lest any man fall after the same exam- 
ple of unbelief." 

Hebrews 5-9. "And being made perfect, he be- 
came the author of eternal salvation unto all them 
that obey him. 

13. " For every one that useth milk is unskilful in 
the word of righteousness : for he is a babe. 

14. " But strong meat belongeth to them that are 
of full age, even those who by reason of use have 
their senses exercised to discern both good and evil." 

Hebrews 7-1. <; Therefore leaving the principles 
of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; 
not laying again the foundation of repencance from 
dead works' and of faith towards God." 



\JO TRUE BELIEVER, 

Hebrews 9-22. "And almost all things are by the 
law purged with blood; and without shedding of 
blood is no remission." 

Hebrews iO-6. "In burnt offerings and sacrifices 
for sin thou hast had no pleasure, 

7. "Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of 
the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God. 

16, * ' This is the covenant I will make with them 
after those days, saith the Lord : I will put my laws 
into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 

17. "And their sins and iniquities will I remember 
no more/ 7 

Hebrews 1 1-10. "For he looked for a city which 
hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 

16. " But now they desire a better country, that 
is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be 
called their God : for he hath prepared for them a 
city. 

26. ' ' Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater 
riches than the treasures in Egypt : for he had respect 
unto the recompense of the reward. 

40, " God having provided some better thing for 
us. that they without us should not be made perfect." 

Hebrews 12-2. " Looking unto Jesus the author 
and finisher of our faith ; who for the joy that was 
set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, 
and is set down at the right hand of the throne of 
God. 

14, V Follow peace with all men, and holiness, 
without which no man shall see the Lord.' 



TRUE BELIEVER. ljl 

22. "But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto 
the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, 
and to an innumerable company of angels, 

23. "To the general assembly and church of the 
firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God 
the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made 
perfect. 

28. " Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which 
cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may 
serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear." 

Hebrews 13-16. "But to do good and to com- 
municate forget not : for with such sacrifices God is 
well pleased. 

21. " Make you perfect in every good work to do 
his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in 
his sight, through Jesus Christ. " 

James 1-12. "Blessed is the man that endureth 
temptation : for when he is tried, he shall receive the 
crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them 
that love him. 

21. "Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and super- 
fluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the 
engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 

27. " Pure religion and undefiled before God and 
the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows 
in their afflictions, and to keep himself unspotted 
from the world." 

James 2-8. "If ye fulfill royal law according to 
the Scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy- 
self, ye do well. 



IJ2 TRUE BELIEVER. 

10. " For whosever shall keep the whole law, and 
yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 

22. "Seest thou how faith wrought with his 
works, and by works was faith made perfect ? 

26. ' l For as the body without the spirit is dead, 
so faith without works is dead also." 

James 3-6. "And the tongue is a fire, a world of 
iniquity : so is the tongue among our members, that 
it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the 
course of nature'; and it is set on fire of hell. 

17. " But the wisdom that is from above is first 
pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreat- 
ed, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, 
and without hypocrisy. 

18. "And the fruit of righteousness is sown|in 
peace of them that make peace." 

James 4-17. " Therefore to him that knoweth to 
to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." 

James 5-8. "Be ye also patient; stablish your 
heart: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. 

9. " Grudge not one against another, brethren, 
lest ye be condemned . behold the judge standeth be- 
fore the door. 

12. "But above all things, my brethren, swear 
not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither 
by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your 
nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation. 

16. " Confess your faults one to another, and pray 
one for another, that ye may be healed. The effect- 
ual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." 



TRUE BELIEVER, lj$ 

I Peter 1-4. "'To an inheritance incorruptable, 
and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in 
heaven for you, 

5. "Who are kept by the power of God through 
faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last 
time. 

9. "Receiving the end of your faith, even the 
salvation of your souls. 

10. " Of which salvation the prophets have in- 
quired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the 
grace that should come unto you. 

24. " For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of 
man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and 
the flower thereof falleth away; 

25. " But the word of the Lord endureth forever. 
And this is the word which by the gospel is preached 
unto you." 

1 Peter 2-5. " Ye also, as lively stones, are built 
up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up 
spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 

9. "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal 
priesthood, a holy nation, a preculiar people: that ye 
spould show forth the prases of him who hath called 
you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 

24. " Who his own self bare our sins in his own 
body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should 
live unto righteousness : by whose stripes ye were 
healed/' 

3-4. " But let it be the hidden man of the heart, 
in that which is not corruptable, even the ornament of 



1/4 TRUE BELIEVER. 

a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God 
of great price. 

9. " Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for rail- 
ing: but contrary wise blessing; knowing that ye 
are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a bless- 
ing." 

4-1. "Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for 

us in the flesh, arm yourselves, likewise with the same 
mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath 
ceased from sin. 

6. is For, for this cause was the gospel preached 
also to them that are dead, that they might be judged 
according to men in the flesh, but live according to 
God in the spirit. 

7. "But the end of all things is at hand : be ye 
therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. " 

1 Peter 5—10. " But the God of all grace, who 
hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, 
after that ye hath suffered a while, make perfect, 
stablish, strengthen, settle you." 

2 Peter 1-4. " Whereby are given unto us exceed- 
ing great and precious promises ; that by these ye 
might be partakers of the divine nature, having escap- 
ed the corruption that is in the world through lusts. 

11. "For so an entrance shall be ministered unto 
you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our 

Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. " 

2 Peter 3-17. " Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye 
know these things before, beware lest ye also, being 
lead away with the error of the wicked, fall from 
your own steadfastness. " 



TRUE BELIEVER. J 75 

I John 1-2. " For the life was manifested, and we 
have en it, and bear witness, and show unto you 
that eternal 1 fe, which was with the Father, and was 
manifiested unto us. 

9. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just 
to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all un- 
righteousness. ,, 

1 John 2-4. "He that saith, I know him, and 

keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the 

truth is not in him. 

5. " But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is 

the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we 

are in him. 

10. " He that loveth his brother abideth in the 

light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 

16. "For all that is in the world, the lust of the 
flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, 
is not of the father, but is of the world. 

17. "And the world passeth away, and the lust 
thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth 
forever. 

25. "And this is the promise that he hath promis- 
ed us, even eternal life." 

1 John 3-3. "And every man that hath this hope 
in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. 

9. " Whosoever is born of God doeth not commit 
sin ; for his seed remaineth in him : and he cannot 
sin, because he is born of God. 

15. " Whosever hateth his brother is a murderer: 
and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abid- 
ing in him. 



I76 TRUE BELIEVER. 

18. " My little children, let us not love in word, 
neither in tongue : but in deed and in truth. 

24. "And he that keepeth his commandments 
dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we 
know that he abideth in us, by the spirit which he 
hath given us." 

1 John 4-1. "Beloved, believe not every spirit, 
but try the spirits whether they are of God : because 
many false prophets are gone out into the world. 

7. * ' Beloved, let us love one another : for love is 
of God ; and every one that loveth is born of God, 
and knoweth God. 

17. "Herein is our love made perfect, that we 
may have boldness in the day of judgment : because 
as he is, so are we in this world.' ' 

1 John 5-3. "For this is the love of God, that 
we keep his commandments ; and his commandments 
are not grevious. 

11. ' ' And this is the record that God hath given 
to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 

12. "He that hath the Son hath life ; and he that 
hath not the Son of God hath not life. 

20. "And we know that the Son of God has 
come, and hath given us an understanding, that we 
may know him that is true ; and we are in him that 
is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the 
true God, and eternal life. " 

2 John 1-6. "And this is love, that we walk after 
his commandments. This is the commandment, 



TRUE BELIEVER. 1 77 

That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should 
walk in it. 

8. " Look to yourselves, that we loose not those 
things which we have wrought, but that we receive a 
full reward." 

3 John i-ii. "Beloved, follow not that which is 
evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is 
of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God." 

Jude 1-3. " Beloved, when I gave all diligence to 
write unto you of the common salvation, it was need- 
full for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye 
should earnestly contend for the faith which was once 
delivered unto the saints. 

24. " Now unto him that is able to keep you from 
falling, and to present you faultless before the pres- 
ence of his glory with exceeding joy." 

Revelations 1-3. "Blessed is he that readeth, and 
they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep 
those things which are written therein : for the time is 
at hand. 

9. " I John, who am your brother, and compan- 
ion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of 
Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for 
the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus 
Christ." 

Revelations 2-29. " He that hath an ear, let him 
hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." 

Revelations 12-17. "And the dragon was wroth 
with the woman, and went to make war with the rem- 
nant of her seed, which keep the commandments of 



iy8 TRUE BELIEVER. 

God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ/' 

Revelations 19-2. "For true and righteous are 
his judgments; for he hath judged the great whore, 
which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and 
hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand." 

Revelations 21-2. "And I John saw the holy city, 
new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heav- 
en, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 

10. "And he carried me away in the spirit to a 
great and high mountain, and shewed me that great 
city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven 
from God. 

22. "And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord 
God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 

24. "And the city had no need of the sun, neith- 
er of the moon, to shine in it : for the glory of God 
did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof." 

Revelations 22-14. " Blessed are they that do his 
commandments, that they may have right to the tree 
of life, and may enter in through the gates into the 
city. 

12, "And, behold, I come quickly; and my re- 
ward is with me, to give every man according as his 
work shall be." 



CHAPTER XVI. 

EXTRAORDINARY PASSAGES, TEXTS ON HELL FIRE. 

Jeremiah 7-31. "And they have built the high 
places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of 
Hinnon, to burn their sons and their daughters in the 
fire ; which I commanded them not. neither came it 
into my heart.' ' 

Deut. 12-31. "Thou shalt not do so unto the 
Lord thy God : for every abomination to the Lord 
which he hateth have they done unto their gods ; for 
even their sons and their daughters they have burnt 
in their fire to their gods." 

2 Chron. 28-3. "Moreover he burnt incense in 
the valley of the son of Hinnon, and burnt his child- 
ren in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen." 

Isaiah 4-4. " When the Lord shall have washed 
away the filth of the 'daughters of Zion, and shall 
have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst 
thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit 
of burning." 



180 EXTRAORDINARY PASSAGES. 

I Cor. 7-9. " But if they cannot contain, let 
them marry : for it is better to marry than to burn/' 

It is man's will that causes bodies to be burned. 
Man in his transgression causes the burning of his 
senses and soul faculties, which burning and suffering 
God claims as His making, because He made all these 
senses and faculties which result in a consequence, 
which also is a punishment. 

Deut. 32-22. " For a fire is kindled in my anger, 
and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume 
the earth with her incense, and set on fire the found- 
ations of the mountains.' ' 

Psalms 79-5. " How long, Lord? wilt thou be 
angry forever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire ?" 

Prov. 26-18. "As a mad man who casteth fire- 
brands, arrows and death. 

21. "As coals are to burning coals, and wood to 
fire ; so is a contentious man to kindle strife." 

Levit. 10-6. " But let your brethren, the whole 
house of Iserael, bewail the burning the Lord hath 
kindled." 

Prov. 26-23. " Burning lips and a wicked heart 
are like a potsherd coverd with silver dross." 

Lev. 29-23. "And the burning ague, that shall 
consume the eyes. " * 

Deut. 29-23. "And that the whole land thereof 
is brimstone, and salt, and burning." 

Psalms 140-10. "Let burning coals fall upon 
them : let them be cast into the fire ; into deep pits, 
that they rise not again." 



EXTRAORDINARY PASSAGES. l8l 

Isaiah 3-24. "And instead of a stomacher a gird- 
ing of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty." 

9-5. " For every battle of the warrior is with con- 
fused noise, and garments rolled in blood ; but this 
shall be with burning and fuel of fire." 

10-16. "And under his glory he shall kindle a 
burning like the burning of a fire. 

17. "And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, 
and his Holy One for a flame : and it shall burn and 
devour in one day, his thorns and his briers, 

18. "And shall consume the glory of his forest, 
and of his fruitfull field, both soul and body." 

30-27. ' ' His lips are full of indignation, and his 
tongue as a devouring fire. 

30. "And with the flame of a devouring fire, 
with scattering, and tempest, and hailstone. 

33. "For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the 
king it is prepared ; he hath made it deep and large : 
the pile thereof is fire and much wood ; the breath of 
the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it." 

33-12. "And the people shall be as the burning 
of lime ; as thorns set up shall they be burned in the 
fire. 

11. "Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth 
stuble : your breath, as fire, shall devour you." 

34-9. "And the streams thereof shall be turned 
into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and 
the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 

10. "It shall not be quenched night nor day ; 
the smoke thereof shall go up forever , from genera- 



1 82 EXTRAORDINARY PASSAGES. 

tion to generation it shall lie waste ; none shall pass 
through it for ever and ever." 

Amos 4-1 1. " I have overthrown some of you, as 
God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were 
as a fire brand plucked out of the burning : yet have 
ye not returned unto me, saiththe Lord." 

Deut. 32-24. "They shall be burnt with hunger, 
and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter dis- 
truction." 

Judges 15-6. "And the Philistines came up, and 
burnt her and her father with fire." 

2 Kings 1-4. "Behold, there came fire down 
from heaved, and burnt up the two captains of their 
former fifties with their fifties." 

Job 30-30. "My skin is black upon me, and my 
bones are burned with heat." 

Psalms 102-3. "For my days are consumed like 
smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth." 

Ezekiel 20-47. "I w ^ kindle a fire in thee, and it 
shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry 
tree : the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all 
faces from the south to the north shall be burned 
therein. • 

48. "And all flesh shall see that I the Lord have 
kindled it: it shall not be quenched." 

Nahum 1-5. "The mountains quake at him, and 
the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, 
yea, the world, and all that dwell therein." 

2 Peter 3-10. "In the which the heavens shall 
pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall 



EXTRAORDINARY PASSAGES. 183 

melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works 
that are therein shall be burned up." 

This verse refers to the people, and their feelings of 
sense and soul, the shame and fear they experience 
is called melting men's works, not natures. 

Deut. 9-21. "And I took your sin, the calf which 
ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, 
and ground it very small, even until it was as small as 
dust." 

Lev. 20-14. "And if a man take a wife and her 
mother, it is wickedness; they shall be burnt with 
fire, both he and they." 

21-9. "And the daughter of any priest, if she 
profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth 
her father: she shall be burnt with fire." 

2 Kings 17-31. "And the Sepharvites burnt their 
children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, 
the gods of Sepharvin." 

2 Chron. 28-3. "And burnt his children in the 
fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the 
Lord had cast out before the children of Iserael." 

Isaiah 43-2. ' ' When thou walkest through the 
fire, thou shalt not be burned neither shall the flame 
kindle upon thee." 

Jeremiah 51-25. "And will make thee a burnt 
mountain." 

Nahum 1-6. "His fury is poured out like fire, 
and the rocks are thrown down by him." 

I Cor. 3-15. " If any man's work shall be burn- 



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ed, he shall suffer loss : but he himself shall be saved ; 
yet so as by fire. ♦ 

13. "It shall be revealed by fire; and the fire 
shall try every man's work of what sort it is." 

2 Samuel 22-9. "There went up a smoke dut of 
his nostrels, and fire out of his mouth devoured: 
coals were kindled by it." 

Genesis 19-24. "Then the Lord rained upon Sod- 
om and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the 
Lord out of heaven. ,, >" 

Deuteronomy 29-23. "And that the whole land 
thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is 
not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein." 

Ezekiel 38-22. "I will rain upon him, and upon 
his bands, and upon the many people that are with 
him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, 
and brimstone." 

Daniel 7-9. * ■ I beheld till the thrones were cast 
down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment 
was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure 
wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his 
wheels as burning fire." 

10. "A fiery stream issued and came forth from 
before him : thousand thousands ministered unto him, 
and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before 
him : the judgment was set, and the books were 
opened." 

Zechariah 12--6. "In that day will I make the 
governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among the 



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wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they 
shall devour all the people round about. 

Job 18-15. " It shall dwell in his tabernacle, be- 
cause it is none of his : brimstone shall be scattered up- 
on his habitation." 

Psalms 1 1 --6. "Upon the wicked he shall rain 
snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: 
this shall be the portion of their cup." 

Revelation 9- 17. "And thus I saw the horses in 
the vision, and them that sat on them, having breast- 
plates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone : and the 
heads of the horses were as the heads of lions ; and 
and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and 
brimstone. " 

18. "By these three was the third part of men 
killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the 
brimstone, that isued out of their mouths." 

14-10. " The same shall drink of the wine of the 
wrath of God, which is pourd out without mixture 
into the cup of his indignation ; and he shall be tor- 
mented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the 
holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb. 

11. "And the smoke of their torment ascendeth 
up forever and ever ; and they have no rest day nor 
night, who worship the beast and his image, and who- 
soever receiveth the mark of his name." 

19-20. "And the beast was taken, and with him 
the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, 
with which he deceived them that had received the 
mark of the beast, and them that worshiped his im- 



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age. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire 
burning with brimstone." 

21-8. "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the 
abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and 
socerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their 
part in the lake which burneth with fire and brim- 
stone: which is the second death." 

Psalms 89-46. "How long, Lord? wilt thou hide 
thyself forever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?" 

97-3. "A fire goeth before him, and burneth up 
his enemies roundabout. 

3. "His lightnings enlighteneth the world : the 
earth saw, and trembled. 

5. " The hills melted like wax at the presence of 
the Lord." 

102-3. "For my days are consumed like smoke, 
and my bones are burned as a hearth." 

Soloman's Song 8-6. ' * For love is strong as death; 
jealousy is cruel as the grave : the coals thereof are 
coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame." 

Job 31-12. "For it is a fire that consumeth to 
destruction, and would root out all mine increase." 

Job 1-16. "While he was yet speaking, there 
came also another, and said. The fire of God is fall- 
en from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and 
the servants and consumed them." 

i5~£o. "He shall not depart out of darkness ; 
the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath 
of his mouth shall he go away." 

18-15. "It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because 



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it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon 
his habitation." 

Ezekiel 39-6. " I will send a fire on Magog, and 
among them that dwell carelessly in the Isles. M 

Amos 1-4, 7, 10, 12, 14; and Chapter 2-25. In 
these texts fire is used as a way of punishment, said 
to destroy the palaces, undoubtedly the meaning is 
the people who live in them. 

Isaiah 9--18. " For wickedness burneth as the fire: 
it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle 
in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up 
like the lifting up of smoke. 

19. "And the people shall be as the fuel of the 
fire: no man shall spare his brother. " 

10-16. "And under his glory he shall kindle a 
burning like the burning of a fire. 

17. "And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, 
and his Holy One for a flame." 

Paul says our God is a consuming fire, meaning to 
those that ds not keep his commandments. 

All through the Old Testament God is represented 
as the power from whom goes out this destruction, 
represented by fire. It is because of the wrong in 
man's thinking and doing which irritates and causes a 
friction that sets on fire the feelings, and passions, 
and burns in the very body and soul of man. These 
same powers and faculties in the man who lovingly 
obeys God's commandments, this same fire. gives light 
life and blessedness. 

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fire, thou shalt not be burned : neither shall the flame 
kindle upon thee." 

This text is applicable to the obedient, who in pa 
tient submission to trials make them work for their 
good. 

Isaiah 65-5. " These are a smoke in my nose, a 
fire that burneth all the day." 

The boastful selfrighteous are a sufficating smoke, 
instead of a sweet incense. 

Isaiah 66-16. " For by fire and by his sword will 
the Lord plead with all flesh.' ' 

24. ' ' And they shall go forth, and look upon the 
carcasses of the men that have transgressed against 
me : for their worm shall not die, neither shall their 
fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhoring unto 
all flesh." 

Jeremiah 4-3. ''Circumcise yourselves to the 
Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye 
men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem ; lest my 
fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can 
quench it, because of the evil of your doings." 

In this text it is the wickedness of men that makes 
the misery of body and soul, which is here represent- 
ed by fire. 

Jeremiah 5-14. " Wherefore thus saith the Lord 
God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I 
will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this peo- 
ple wood, and it shall devour them." 

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of a temporal. The soul is destroyed as well as the 
body, and while it is in the body. 

Jeremiah 20--9. "Then I said, I will not make 
mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. 
But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut 
up in my bones, and I was weary with forebearing, 
and I could not stay." 

In this text we learn that the righteous man, when 
neglecting, or refusing, to do his duty, must suffer as 
well as the incorrageable impenitent sinner. Jonah is 
a plain example. As fire causes the mos| acute pain, 
of anything we know of, to the body, so it is used to 
represent the sufferings of the soul. So diamonds, 
pearls, precious stones and gold is used to represent 
all blessedness of soul and spirit. 

Jeremiah 21-12. "O house of David, thus saith 
the Lord ; Execute judgment in the morning, and 
deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the op- 
pressor, lest may fury go out like fire, and burn that 
none can quench it, because of the evil of your 
doings." 

This is a present punishment for wrong doing and 
thinking, and is represented by unquenchable fire. 
This unquenchable fire can only be put out by right 
thinking and doing. That is by repentance and for- 
saking wrong doing. This is God's commandment. 
God in Christ has made the atonement, but we must 
make the repentance and obedience, to evidence to 
others, ourselves and God that we have accepted his 
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Jeremiah 51 --5 8. "Thus saith the Lord of hosts: 
The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, 
and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the 
people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, 
and they shall be weary. " 

All of these texts speak of what transpires this side 
the grave, but we may think of two worlds, the world 
of temporal, or material things, or organized bodies, 
and the world of thought and knowledge, understand- 
ing and wisdom, which are things spiritual, or eternal. 
(See 2 Cor! 4-18.) 

Lamentations 2- 4/ "He hath bent his bow like 
an enemy : he stood with his right hand as an adver- 
sary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the 
tabernacle of the daughter of Zion : he poured out 
his fury like fire/* 

Ezekiel 21-32. "Thou shall be for fuel to the 
fire' thy blood shall be in the midst of the land ; thou 
shalt be no more remembered : for I the Lord have 
spoken it." 

H'osea 7-6. "For they have made ready their 
heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: * * * 
in the morning it burnetii as a flaming fire." 

Joel 2--30. "And I will show wonders in the 
heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars 
of smoke." (Refer to Luke 21--11, 25.) 

The Mosaic law and ordinances may be called the 
old heavens, Christ salvation the new. The igno- 
rance and superstition made the clouds and smoke, in 
or through which Christ's righteousnnss, had to ap- 



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pear the ideas of all governments and religions, were 
clouds and mountains, which could not be removed in 
one generation of believers, but by continued succes- 
sion of saints. In faith of Christ, believers shall be 
able to read the sayings of Christ and the apostles, by 
the enlightening influence of the holy spirit, to read 
their sayings with a more perfect understanding than 
they could in their time. Hence Christ says : They 
should do greater things than He did, "because I go 
to the Father." To remove prejudice, ignorand, bad 
religion, bad government and bad mind is greater 
work than to remove bodily disease. Spiritual work, 
as at the day of penticost, is a more godly work than 
any Christ did while His body was visible on earth. 
It was spiritual, or mind work, or service that Christ 
wanted, not bodily service. The world was full of 
bodies. The world of holy minds, or spirits, was to 
be made — or come. Believers must have this faith 
before it will come. 

Believers are yet "gazing up into heaven " after 
Christ's body, or the forms cf material things in 
church ordinances, or places, and oaths and promises 
about bodily action; but He says, "The flesh profit- 
eth nothing, the words that I speak unto you they are 
spirit and they are life. " Paul says, " He will hence- 
forth know no man after the flesh : yea though we 
kave known Christ after the flesh yet now henceforth 
know we him no more." 

All things are become new in Christ, and this is 
the new heavens and new earth promised in the Old 



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Testament. The old heavens, or the Mosaic dispen- 
sation, was connected with blood and bodily works, 
is the cause of the declaration that God would shake 
the heavens, that the things that could not be shaken 
might remain. The things that could not be shaken 
are the laws of righteousness, contained in the ten 
commandments, and in the prophets, and God's spir- 
itual teachings all through the Old Testament. The 
heaven under Christ's dispensation is spiritual, or in 
the minds of believers, to direct the soul and spirit to 
all right and good, and in this way the actions are 
made right. 

Amos 5-6. "Seek the Lord, and ye shall live ; 
lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and 
devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel." 

Jonah 2-2. "I cried by reason of mine afflictions 
unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of 
hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice." 

Math. 3-10. "And now also the ax is laid unto 
the root of the trees : therefore every tree which 
bringeth not fourth good fruit is hewn down, and cast 
into the fire." . 

Under Christ, the new dispensation, believers must 
do good, to not do evil is not sufficient to bring us to 
heaven. 

John 15-6. " If a man abide not in me, he is cast 
forth as a branch, and is withered ; and men gather 
them, and cast them into the fire, and they are 
burned." 



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- This representation of destruction by fire is the 
same as in the Old Testament. 

Luke 3-16. " He shall baptise you with the Holy- 
Ghost and with fire." 

Luke 3-17. "Whose fan is in his hand, and he 
will thoroughly purge his floor, and will gather the 
wheat into his garner ; but the chaff he will burn with 
fire unquenchable." 

As under the old dispensation so under the new, 
the wickedness of the wicked is the fire which de- 
stroys them. The same with the righteous under the 
old as under the new, it is God's righteousness in 
them that brings salvation. 

Matthew 25-41. "Then shall he say unto them 
on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into 
everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." 

Mark 9-48. "Where there worm dieth not, and 
the fire is not quenthed." 

These expressions are varied some from the same 
in the Old Testament, but in meaning are the same 
under Christ righteousness, and wickedness is more 
clearly separated and set the one over against the 
other. Spirit is separate from flesh, though one can- 
not be manifest but in connection with the other, ex- 
cept supernaturally. Miracles belong to the old dis- 
pensation. 

Acts 2-3. "And there appeared unto them cloven 
tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them/' 

This fire represented the light which entered their 
minds, making them to understand the knowledge of 



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the old and new dispensation. How to use the one 
to show forth the other, so as to bring in the spiritual 
to supersede the material. To make righteousness of 
bodily action come through mind and spirit, instead 
of through physical material law, or force, making 
' ' the first last and the last first." The child is first 
kept in the right by outward power, mostly by phys- 
ical force, till his mind power is enabled, by knowl- 
edge and obedience to truth and right, to have within 
himself the spiritual kingdom to direct the physical 
actions, as well as the soul. 

Mark 9-29. " For every one shalt be salted with 
fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt." 

2 Chronicles 13-5. "Ought ye not to know that 
the Lord God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel 
to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a 
covenant of salt ? " 

Numbers 19-19. "All the heave offerings of the 
holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto 
the Lord, have I given thee, and thy sons, and thy 
daughters with thee for a statute forever. It is a cov- 
enant of salt forever before the Lord unto thee and 
thy seed with thee." 

Leviticus 2-13. "And every oblation of thy meat 
offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou 
suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lack- 
ing from thy meat offering: with all thy offerings 
thou shalt offer salt." 

Ezekiel 43-34. "And thou shalt offer them before 
the Lord, and the priests shalt cast salt upon them, 



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and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto 
the Lord." 

God by Moses teaches by use of material things. 
God in Christ uses these material things as types, or 
means, to represent things spiritual, or faculties of 
mind. Thus fire and water are used to cleanse and to 
purify ; salt is saving, and represents the holy spirit as 
a saving from sin and misery. Fire and water as a 
purifying power represents the work of the holy spirit, 
in taking away all wrong affections and feelings of the 
soul and thought. In this way to prepare all the fac- 
ulties of the soul and all functions of the body to "re- 
ceive the salt, which represents the work of the holy 
spirit* to preserve all the faculties of soul and body in 
righteousness, that quietness and peace might be the 
state of body, soul and spirit, that man in all his fac- 
ulties of soul and spirit might grow and increase in all 
wise and good understanding, to keep all the com- 
mandments of God through Christ in love, to the 
praise of God through Christ and to the highest and 
greatest good of mankind. 

Romans 10-14. "For Christ is the end of the law 
for righteousness to every one that believeth." 

Galatians 3-24. " Wherefore the law was our 
schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might 
be justified by faith." 

These texts show that it was not the material, or 
bodily actions that justified before God. They were 
only a means, or way, to lead to mind work, or as 
Paul calls it, "faith." When this mind, or spirit, or 



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faith work is exercised in true knowledge, in faith, 
love and righteousness, it will be the power to govern 
all bodily action, as well as to regulate and subdue all 
the evil exercises of the soul, and keep the soul in all 
quiet subservience to the best good of body and spir- 
it. And this is the Christ power which under Moses 
was a mind, or spirit, power, but was manifested 
through, or by, carnal commandments, being under, 
or behind, the vail of these material things ; so 
Christ's body and soul manifested the godly more 
perfectly' by His life and teachings. Yet Paul says, 
speaking of the new and living way, he calls Christ's 
flesh a vail, or hinderance, to the perfect manifestation 
of the spirit power, as manifested at the day of penti- 
cost. So it was expedient His body should go away, 
that His spirit might dwell in all bodies throughout 
the whole world, that would accept this new way in 
mind, or spirit, work in all holy obedience to His 
teachings and words in body, soul and spirit. 

Moses, or God's way through Moses was afmateri- 
al, or temporal kingdom. God's way through Jesus 
Christ is the spiritual kingdom and eternal. Being, 
under Moses, the invisable saving power, as He is in 
the Mesiah, Immanuel, Wonderful Counselor, in the 
flesh He was an atoning power of reconciliation be? 
tween God and man. In His mind, or faith, or spir- 
it, He was a justifying power to deliver from sin and 
transgression, and to give all joy and peace in loving 
obedience. 

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and its end. When it is directed by appetite, lusts, 
passion, desire, imagination, or all temporal things it 
will most surely end in that burning misery of soul 
and body which is represented by brimstone and fire 
unquenchable. But if the will in its beginning be di- 
rected by love, kindness and obedience to right and 
good, which it must receive from without, from God 
through parents and teachers, till there is sufficient 
knowledge of right and wrong to enlighten the under- 
standing and the conscience, that the judgment 
might not err, this is Christ's way or power as well as 
by the supernatural, or miracles, to save from sin and 
misery-. 

1 Cor. 3-1 1. " For other foundation can no man 
lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." 

12. "Now if any man build upon this foundation 
gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stuble-" 

Meaning repentance, faith, love, obedience, knowl- 
edge, understanding, judgment, hope, fear, imagina- 
tion and appetite. Christ's spirit, which is represent- 
ed by fire, shall destroy the evil, or wrong, and pro- 
tect the good. The wood, hay and stubble represent 
the wrong and sin, or evil, which by repentance is 
cast out as ashes. 

The good were saved, the bad were cast away that 
were caught in the fisherman's net. The tares were 
gathered in bundles to be burned, but the wheat was 
gathered into barns. Meaning the repentant, loving, 
obedient, intelligent, faithful soul shall have joy, 
peace and blessedness. On the other hand shall be 



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impenitance, hatred, disobedience, anger and misery. 

2 Thes. 1-8. " In flaming fire taking vengence on 
them that know not God, and that obey not the gos- 
pel of our Lord Jesus Christ." 

2 Peter 3-7. . " But the heavens and the earth, 
which are now, by the same word are kept in store, 
reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and 
perdition of ungodly men." 

Peter refers to the distruction by water of the heav- 
ens and earth by God when he saved Noah and his 
family, as being like the destruction by fire of the 
heavens and earth as it was in his day. The flood 
destroyed nothing but the men and animals that had 
breath, or could not live without air. By the descrip- 
tion in Genesis of the water above the firmament, and 
that the heaven was beneath, under the firmament, 
and as there was no rain, but the earth was waterd by 
a mist, that went up from the earth and waterd the 
earth, we have some reason to think that the clouds 
encircled the earth without a break, or opening. In 
the night there would be a dew, or fog that would wet 
the ground sufficient for all growth. When the pow- 
er of gravitation was greatest, overcoming the power 
of attraction of the sun, then the water would begin 
to fall, the equilibrium would be disturbed, motion 
would be produced, dashing particles of clouds against 
particles till they were accumulated,- till gravity would 
be stronger than attraction of the sun, and they would 
fall to the ground, this would in the end produce 
wind, which would finish, or destroy the firmament. 






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Thus the heaven would be extended indefinitely. 
Now could be seen the sun, moon and stars, and the 
heat on the earth with no intervening cloud, would 
make men imagine they might some day be burnt up, 
ever since fire has been the symbol of extreme punish- 
ment, suffering and misery. 

Peter's expression of flaming fire is no more than 
what is said in the Old Testament expressing God's 
displeasure against great sinners. In the seventh 
verse the heavens and the earth are reserved unto fire, 
but it is ungodly men that are to experience the pre- 
diction. We have seen that believers are purged as 
by fire, much more does fire represent the destruction 
of unbelievers. 

1 John 2-14. "And the world passeth away, and 
the lust thereof : but he that doeth the will of God 
abideth forever." 

This text we understand, or we infer declares the 
world of pride and lust, meaning the same as Paul 
does when he uses the word "flesh," passes away ; 
meaning the same as Peter does by the expression of 
burning with fire, and the elements melting with fer- 
vent heat. Those who do the will of God are the 
other world, or the world to come, which is forever, 
or eternal, because God made man to do His will 
from the beginning, and labor with Him till Christ's 
time for the end. 

God's will was done in Christ, and all believers are 
required to do Christ's will — not Adam's — Adam rep- 
resents the flesh, Christ the spirit. God's will is that 



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believers should live after the spirit, or have the spirit 
within them while in the flesh, or body, as Christ pos- 
sesed it while His body was in the world temporal. 
God's will is that the Christ believers shall be mul- 
tiplied till they greatly exceed in number the Adam 
believers. 

Jude 7. "Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and 
the cities about them in like manner, giving them- 
selves over to fornication, and going after strange 
flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the ven- 
gence of eternal fire." 

I do not find another text where the word eternal 
is used in connection with punishment by fire. Un- 
quenchable and the worm that dieth not, is in the last 
verse of Isaiah. Jude must mean the fire to be etern- 
al, if he does not mean the suffering. The Old 
Testament speaks of the fire as being the pain and 
distress of body, and anguish and misery of soul, 
and that the sin and wickedness of men is the fuel 
that keeps it burning. The wickedness of Sodom 
was the cause of God's raining fire and brimstone on 
them. The vengence of God comes on the ungodly 
in ways innumerable, and these ways are represented 
by fire, on account of fire being the most acute suff- 
ering, that can be inflicted on the body, and the an- 
guish of soul and spirit is represented in the same 
way. These people of Sodom were an example, to 
those that live after, to warn them against such wick- 
edness and all wrong doing, that they might escape 
such destruction. As Paul says, the Israelites that 



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were brought out of Egypt by miracles, were destroy- 
ed in the wilderness for their unbelief. He uses it for 
an example to all as the consequence of unbelief, and 
an argument to persuade men to believe in Christ. 
This fire is called eternal, because its effect on sin, or 
sinners, is the same on the first generation, and the 
last, and all generations between. It does not alter 
from begining to end, though the fire may be eternal, 
it may not have the effect to make the bodies and 
soul so, which it destroyes. 

Eternal is conected with God and life many times, 
but always in connection with obedience, love and 
righteousness in its connection with man. 

Purposes of God are spoken of as eternal, salvation 
is also, redemption also. The spirit is eternal. The 
called receive an eternal inheritance. God's glory is 
eternal, and the believers house in the heavens 
eternal. 

Prov. 2-18. "For her house inclineth unto death, 
and Her paths unto the dead. 

19. "None that go unto her return again, neither 
take they hold on the paths of life." 

These verses speak of both temporal and spiritual 
death. 

3-18. "She is a tree of life to them that lay hold 
upon her : and happy is every one that retaineth her." 

This verse speaks of wisdom as Christ, or the be- 
liever through faith in God's comandments, and lov- 
ing obedience has the tree of life restored to him, 
which was taken away by disobedience. 



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Prov. 4-13. "Take fast hold of instruction; let 
her not go; kepp her; for she is thy life." 

22. " For they are life unto those that find them, 
and health to all their flesh/ 7 

24. "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out 
of it are the issues of life/' 

This is the same life that Christ came into the 
world to establish in the minds and hearts of believ- 
ers, that he might deliver man from that miserable 
state of body, soul and spirit that man had brought 
upon himself by his wrong thinking, and imaginings 
and inventions. 

Prov. 7-27. "Her house is the way to hell, going 
down to the chambers of death." 

This verse refers to mind death, rather than the 
death of the body. It means anquish of soul and 
mind as in the case of David and Jonah. 

Prov. 8-35. " For whoso findeth me findeth life, 
and shall obtain favor of the Lord." 

36. "But he that sinneth against me wrongeth 
his own soul: all they that hate me love death," 

These texts show the good and evil state in our 
fleshly life, and urge man to seek the spiritual life, by 
wisdom, (which is the Christ power), through keep- 
ing the commandments, which give knowledge, un- 
derstanding and judgment. 

Prov, 9-6. "Forsake the foolish, and live; and 
go in the way of understanding." 

18. "But he knoweth not that the dead are there; 
and that her guests are in the depths of hell." 



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Life here is the consequence of an intelligent, lov- 
ing obedience to right and good ; hell, or misery of 
soul, is the consequence of wilful disobedience. In 
intelligence, or ignorance, we learn the same thing 
from Christ's teachings. 

Prov. 15-11. " Hell and destruction are before 
the Lord ; how much more the hearts of the children 
of men." 

This text must refer tc what experience the soul 
has while in the body. 

Prov. 10-2. " Treasures of wickedness profit noth- 
ing: but righteousness delivcreth from death." 

11. •• The mouth of a righteous man is a well of 
life : but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked/ 1 

16. ''The labor of the righteous tendeth to life : 
the fruit of the wicked to sin." 

Chapter 1 1-4, 5, 6, 7, and 19; Chapter 12-28, 13, 
and 14; Chapter 14-27; Chapter 32-15; Chapter 
4-21; Chapter 21-23 ; Chapter 13-14. 

These texts declare the same life in the body that 
Christ taught, does ex ist in believers while in a liv- 
ing body, and these texts teach the same death Christ 
said was in the souls and minds of unbelievers whilst 
in living bodies. 

2 Sam. 22-6. "The sorrows of hell compassed 
me about; the snares of death prevented me." 

Psalms 1 16-3. " The sorrows of death compassed 
me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found 
trouble and sorrow." 

18-4. "The sorrows of death compassed me, and 



204 EXTRAORDINARY PASSAGES. 

the floods of ungodly men made me afraid." 

5. "The sorrows of hell compassed me about : 
the snares of death prevented me." 

In these texts hell means extreme suffering of 
body and soul, or the soul in the body, and the an- 
guish of mind, or soul, that a soul can experience 
from the conviction of its own sins, or the pain and 
misery that can be inflicted on a person by means of 
others. 

Romans 8-12; 1 Corr. 15-42; Gal. 6-8; 2 Peter 
1-4, 2, 12, and 19. 

All these texts speak of corruption by wickedness, 
and this is the meaning of the word in Psalms 16-10, 
As it is set in connection with the word hell, the word 
hell is used to express extreme misery of soul while 
in the body. 



CHAPTER XVIL 

RIGHT THEORY BEFORE RIGHT PRACTICE. 

A general description of the formation of man is 
first given in which we have the blessing of God on 
them, and the declaration that they should have do- 
minion over all creatures and the command that they 
multiply and repleisnh the earth. After this we have 
a more particular relation of God's planting the gar- 
den and putting the man into it to keep and to dress 
it, and the privilege of all of the trees except one, 
and the command not to eat of it under penalty of 
death. Then follows the creation of woman, after 
the command was given. This garden and tree is 
figurative as the tree and river is in the last chapter 
of Revelations. Knowledge of good and evil are not. 
fruits of a material tree, but of man, as made a body 
and soul, in the image of the Creator, and like Him, 
not to experience evil or misery. In keeping the 
commandment he might and would learn good by 
good, and keep clear of evil and possess all the bless- 
edness in the exercise of all the faculties of bodv and 



206 RIGHT THEORY. 

soul in righteousness. Whether the commandment 
was from or in nature, or revelation, no one will deny 
that the origin of the transgression was in the imagin- 
ation, or material, or sensual powers, or all, that was 
finished when man became a living soul, or in that of 
man which after the disobedience was declared to be 
dust. The tempter could affect in the material quali- 
ties of mind, and they thinking that these qualities 
were the divine, and taking them as they* guide and 
director, rejecting the commandment in which was 
God's spirit, or Christ their Savior ; they found the 
tempter's words true, as to their being to know as 
God, but it was by evil, which brought shame and re- 
morse to their souls, and as they chose to follow their 
fleshly mind it was good for them to be outside of 
God's holy place, where only those can stay who 
keep his commandments. Jesus' temptations were the 
same as Adam's, to rule in the material world instead 
of the spiritual. What was of Adam before he re- 
ceived the commandment was natural or material, or 
the flesh; keeping the commandments perfected the 
spirit, as Christ says. " God's commandments are life 
everlasting/' so those who lovingly obey them have 
eternal life, that is, continued happy or blessed state 
of mind or spirit;* 'tis not cut off by unrepented sin. 
The impenitent sinner has not the conscious feeling of 
pardoned sin, which is the eternal life or blessedness 
of spirit or soul, for by his disobedience he rejects the 
only way he can attain to it; he lives the fleshly life 
which is ever cut off by loss, misery, anguish and re- 



RIGHT THEORY. 20/ 

morse; which is soul or sipiritual death; this was the 
threatened death to Adam, which he immediately ex- 
perienced after transgression. The serpent's assertion 
meant his material death. Man without a revealed 
commandment, in his natural state, was capable of 
good as well as of evil, as Abel, Enoch, Melchisedek 
and Job, wise men of the East ; even many kings and 
priests of the Gentile world glorified the Creator, by 
the manifested fruits of their doings, and results of 
their labors, because he was the soul or only author 
or creator of all, mind, body and soul, as well as all 
other material which all used to produce material 
good, whether in art, science, war, or wealth. All 
these varid laborious inventions of men failed to bring 
only good, because men followed their natural powers, 
neglecting to use these powers to attain to the spirit- 
ual, which is good without evil, right without 
wrong, and blessedness without misery. This was 
the state of man when God saw everything He had 
made and behold it was very good. 

The Creator never losing sight of His object re- 
specting man, He began with Abraham a series of 
promises by revelations, to redeem man from wrong 
to right, from evil to good, from misery to blessed- 
ness. The law of Moses was man's invention, revised, 
corrected, cut off and added to, till the only true God 
was made Creator and Redeemer, and man was made 
to know his relation to his Creator and his fellow 
men. Because of the material, or fleshly service at- 
tending the law, God instituted prophets or teachers 



208 , RIGHT THEORY. 

to whom He revealed His special word, in reproofs or 
instructions, corrections and commands in righteous- 
ness, that man might love Him and one another. 
They told of the time when all should know Him, 
from the least to the greatest; and when all tears 
should be wiped from all faces, and He would sit a 
prince and ruler, who should rule in justice, equity 
and righteousness, and would destroy the wicked with 
the sword of His mouth. All the promises of the 
Old Testament respecting the blessed state of man in 
mind, soul and spirit, have their fulfillment in the 
New, in Jesus Christ and the descent of the Holy 
Spirit on the day of Penticost, and the preaching of 
Apostles and teachers throughout the world. In the 
many that believed in Christ which is a spiritual work 
being in the soul, mind and spirit, to bring salvation 
to soul and spirit by faith or mind work, which brings 
correct knowledge and right understanding, and true 
judgment, and the will and conscience being in ac- 
cord. Thus all the powers of soul and spirit, through 
or by the commandments is Christ's mind in us to 
work all good without evil, there is no more shame 
or remorse of conscience, because all is done for the 
best good of spirit, soul and body : this is salvation 
by Jesus Christ. The spirit of God by means of the 
commandments brings to the soul the knowledge 
necessary to help nature or the natural soul to accept 
that loving obedience which is the new birth, or the 
resurrection or quickening in Christ Jesus to the new 
life, by which the animal nature is subdued and made 



RIGHT THEORY. 20g 

to serve the Creator instead of the creature, and in 
this way attains to the greatest possible good, and 
the body becomes a temple or house in which the 
Creator or Redeemer dwells as supreme ; to direct to 
all blessedness, instead of being a power under the 
will of the carnal mind to work all wickedness and 
misery. By Christ's saving us from our sins we gain 
more than we lost in Adam, whereas he could only 
get good by good, we can get it by evil as well as 
good. If we by ignorance, or in many ways are 
overtaken with evil or temptation, the wisdom which 
comes by Christ's spirit in us, enables us to turn it 
into good or get all the good out of it we can and 
reject the rest What a joy to the soul that we can 
thus be made the sons and daughters of the Lord 
God Almighty, made to sit in heavenly places in 
Christ Jesus, where sorrow and sighing can never 
come, and although this earthly house of our body 
decayes day by day, as Paul says, " I die daily," we 
have a house not made of dust, eternal in the heav- 
ens, which dwells in our spirit by Jesus Christ, for 
He says "the kingdom of God is within us," to make 
us to bring forth the fruits of the spirit, which are 
love, joy, meekness, patience, temperance, charity, 
and * ' whatsoever things are lovely, and of good re- 
port." What soul can desire more? To be filled 
with " God's fullness" is all we can desire; it satisfies 
angels, and men cannot have more. 

The above is sufficient to show that the salvation of 
man is his attaining; to those attributes and qualities of 



2lO RIGHT THEORY. 

mind and spirit in kind, as the Creator and Redeemer, 
thus fulfilling God's purposes in being the means or 
instrument by which He could display or manifest His 
spiritual attributes to all intelligent beings. This near- 
ness to God by His indwelling attributes, or mind, or 
spirit, makes that high, and exalted and blessed state 
of mind promised in the Old Testament and fulfilled 
in the New. The day of Penticost we have the first 
fruits, or the example of what man will be when he 
does his part in using the means the Creator and Re- 
deemer has provided for his spiritual life, as He has 
for his natural life. " How should man be just with 
God?" The same question was asked three thous- 
and years ago. We see it is by making use of the 
lower faculties, to gain the higher ; we cannot have 
souls before we have bodies, by the right use of these 
two parts, we may gain the third, which is a blessed 
state of mind and spirit, if we know and love and 
keep his commandments ; if not, a mind and spirit of 
woe and misery. 

The woman was first in transgression, she must be 
first in obedience ; as a mother she must know her 
work, not only the beginning but the end, which is to 
have a spirit for every body whicti nature produces. 
God by revelation and through Jesus Christ has given 
the means to make spirits, as He has in nature to 
make bodies. This is the way to get rid of sd much 
fleshly life, which never attains the spiritual, or bless- 
ed, or heavenly state. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

Christ's kingdom spiritual. 

Luke 17-21. "The kingdom of God is within 
you." 

That is those who "know God and Jesus Christ 
whom he hath sent." 

The heart which God did promise to put within His 
people, is in the knowledge, understanding and judg- 
ment rather than in the affections, or soul faculties. 
The affections and soul faculties is the part of man in 
which dwells the natural heart. This part of man is 
created with the material body, which together are 
made the means, or way, in their righteous exercise 
of loving obedience to God's revealed will by Jesus 
Christ, to attain to the exercise of the functions of 
body, faculties of soul and attributes of spirit, which 
fulfills all the promises of God our Redeemer, and 
thus man manifests godliness in the flesh, which is 
the end for which man is made. 

Christ opened their understandings to understand 



212 Christ's kingdom spiritual, 



the scriptures. This was a spiritual work in their 
minds, in that part of the soul and spirit by which 
we contrive, plan and determine theory and action in 
living bodies. And this is "the kingdom of God 
within us." It brings us to a wise state of mind and 
heart, which fulfills all scripture. 

2 Timothy 3-16. "All Scripture is given by inspi- 
ration of God, (not by the inspiration of the flesh, or 
the devil) and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, 
for correction, for instruction in righteousness : 

17. "That the man of God may be perfect, thor- 
oughly furnished unto all good works." 

These texts speak of the spiritual effect the reveal- 
ed word of God ought to have on all minds, to make 
them live out the life of blessedness which God in- 
tended they should, in living bodies. Christ opened 
the understanding of the disciples, that they might 
receive the ideas which the material things represent. 

Elias promised coming is understood to be in his 
bodily person, but Christ interpreted it to mean spirit- 
ually, in the person of John the Baptist. So Christ's 
second coming is spiritually fulfilled by a body "hav- 
ing the mind of Christ " in it, and being filled " with 
all the fullness of God." The spiritual fulfilling of 
the scriptures is shown by the way Christ interpreted 
the sixth commadment. Man's mind, or soul, may 
be guilty although the outward act be not done. A 
man may be a murderer of minds, or souls of others 
by using wrong ways, or means to destroy their inno- 
cent state of happiness in body, soul or spirit. This 



CH-RISfs KINGDOM SPIRITS At.. 2 I 3 

as peculiarly the work of the flesh and the devil, 
which Christ came to destroy, and this is the work 
which Christ will do in believers, when they have His 
mind in them and the spirit of Him who raked up 
Christ from the dead. 

1 Corinthians 2-11. "A For what man knoweth the 
things of man, save the spirit of man that is in him ? 
even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the 
Spirit of God." 

The work of the spirit in the hearts; or minds, of 
Tmen without the instrumentality of the body -on the 
day of penticost fulfilled the scriptures. This spirit, 
or mind work and love power was the conseqaienoe, 
or result of the workings of the Mosaic law. The re- 
ligious way of pardoning sin by the shedding of blood 
was done away with. The bloody way of pardoning 
sin did not save men from the misery of .spiritual 
'death, but wars and destructions of all Jkinds preyed 
cipon soul and body. So God brought in Christ the 
righteous, to give man a sample of a man saved by 
righteousness, that all who would neglect this last a«d 
only way of soul and spirit life and happines in living 
bodies, might perish in their own chosen way of 
wrong and transgression as their reward, or coinse- 
<que&ce. 

u Iam Alpha and Omega, the first and the last." 

To receive and to know Christ is the first, and to 
love Him or hate Him is the last According to 
these two ^characters shall they be awarded to the 
blessings prepared from the foundation of the world, 



214 CHRIST S KINGDOM SPIRITUAL. 

or to the miseries and woes ever awaiting them since 
the beginning. 

The understanding of the scriptures in loving obedi- 
ence is the fulfilling of the Old Testament promises of 
God's pouring out His spirit and of writing His law 
in their hearts, and by their obedience evidencing to 
themselves and their Redeemer that they are His 
children. 

Isaiah 4-4. * ' When the Lord shall have washed 
away the filth 'of the daughters of Zion, and shall 
have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst 
thereof by the spirit of judgment, and the spirit of 
burning." 

Surely this text refers to the souls, spirits, or minds 
of men, which Paul calls "the things which are etern- 
al." If the judgment here means punishment it is 
anguish of soul. If a decision of right or wrong it is 
the work of the senses, soul and spirit, or that part of 
man which is not seen by the material eye. 

Deuteronomy 32-20. "And he said, I will hide 
my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: 
for they are a very fro ward generation, children in 
whom is no faith." 

This text shows that without the right exercise of 
soul and spirit work there cannot be loving obedience 
in mind or body. This is the i ' way the kingdom of 
God is within us." 

God speaking of His work says, by His spirit He 
garnished the heavens. ■ ' Not by power, or by might 
but by my spirit saith the Lord of hosts." All ma- 



CHRIST S KINGDOM SPIRITUAL. 21 5 

terial work first wrought out in the mind and the 
senses have a part to do as well as the soul and spirit. 
This holy, heavenly mind work was spoken by Christ 
when He nailed to the cross all that part of the Mo- 
saic law which He abolished. 

Isaiah 1 1-2. "And the Spirit of the Lord shall 
rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understand- 
ing, the spirit of council and might, the spirit of 
knowledge and the fear of the Lord ; 

3. "And shall make him of quick understanding 
in the fear of the Lord." 

These texts show that the power to be good and to 
do good is by, or in the knowledge, understanding 
and judgment rather than in the desires, hopes, fears, 
affections and imaginations. 

Psalms 51-10. M Renew a right spirit within me. 

12. M Take not thy Holy Spirit from me, 

16. il For thou desirest not sacrifice ; else would 
I give it : thou delightest not in burnt offerings. 

17. * ' The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit : 
a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not 
despise." 

David understood the spirituality of the law. It was 
the state of mind and heart that made the material 
part of any effect. Having a good state of mind and 
heart David could under the circumstances take the 
"shew bread" and be guiltless. This is how that 
Paul could call the law spiritual, and that Christ 
could say, before Abraham was, I am. The com- 
mand to Adam was worthless only as the idea, or 



2i6 Christ's kingdom spiritual. 

mind of God was represented by it. May we not 
think that much of the opening of the scriptures to 
the two disciples was of this character. 

Solomon in all his material glory did not fulfill the 
will of God as his Father did. 

Dan. 9-24. "To finish the transgression, and to 
make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for 
iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness." 

Rom. 5-10. "For if when we were enemies we 
were reconciled to God by the death of his Son ; 
much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by 
his life/" 

It is as though God had tried material righteous- 
ness under the law of Moses, and it did not save men, 
so He brought in a man without sin, holy in body, 
soul and spirit, which was the only way He had ever 
taught, or instructed men in that they might deliver 
themselves from spiritual, or soul, death. Adam's 
spiritual death was in his loosing his happy state of 
mind ; in the shame and fear he experianced after 
transgression, and in the presence of the Creator. 
Christ destroys this spirit death by living according to 
the idea, or spiritual understanding which the letter of 
the commandment represents. All believers, by, or 
in, their knowing and understanding the idea, or truth 
which the commander, or revealer, intended to con- 
vey by the letter of the command, or if the believer 
learns the theory, or idea by mind work, or bodily 
experience, it is the same as though it was revealed 
bv voice. The believer must "do the truth " as well 



'FATHER* S HOUSE. 2 1 7 

.as know it. Righteousness when it is finished brought 
life, as well as " transgression when it is finished bring- 
eth forth death/' Christ is the end of sin and trans- 
gression, because " He had no sin." He brought in 
-everlasting righteousness, because He was in all bodi- 
ly life, in soul and spirit, holy, blessed and good. 



CHAPTER XIX. 

THE FATHER'S HOUSE, OR MANSION. 

John 14-2. *' In my Father's "house are many man- 
sions; if it were not so I would liave told you. I go 
to prepare a place for you." 

4. "And whither I go ye know, and the way ye 
know." 

The word house here refers to character more 'than 
to a place. God's people are His house, His build- 
ing ; He dwells in a contrite heart Believers are the 
temple of the living God ; they are His building. 

God says to David, Heaven is my throne, and the 
dearth my footstool. What house will ye build me? 



2 I 8 father's house. 

hath not my hand made all these things? The house 
of David, the house of Eli, the house of Ahab. The 
term is now applied to merchants and bankers. 

God's house is filed with all truth, and right and 
good. The different ways in which the believer can 
enjoy, and work for Christ in His kingdom of humble 
believing souls, may well be represented by a richly 
and well furnished room in a house. Are not the 
joys of the loving, obedient soul and spirit above all 
price? Christ's life, temptations, sufferings and res- 
urrection prepared the place He said He would go 
and prepare for them. He must first give them a 
sample of what it was to suffer for righteousness sake, 
and enter into the joy set before Him. This being 
the way the Father had appointed Christ His king- 
dom. In the same way He appointed a kingdom to 
His disciples ; filled with mansions of spiritual peace 
rest, a conscience void of offense toward God and 
man, knowledge and wisdom that their persecutors 
could not gainsay, or resist ; they should sit on twelve 
thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel ; they 
should be one with Him and the Father, they should 
sit at His right hand, where are joys for evermore. 
The right hand is the place of power, of truth, of 
right, of good, and all the highest possible spiritual 
joys and blessings the mind and soul can attain to. 
This blessed state of mind, soul and spirit was attain- 
ed by believers on the day of Penticost, by the help 
of miracles, that believers and unbelievers might see 
and know what the character of true believers should 



FATHER S HOUSE. 2 1 9 

be to experience all the joys and blessedness repre- 
sented by the similitudes of house, mansions, temple 
and building, that those who should live afterwards 
might see and understand the end for which they 
should labor, by using their natural abilities to acquire 
the same state of mind and spirit, by krtowing and 
lovingly obeying all God's commandments, which are 
revealed in Christ's life and teachings and comand- 
ments, and as illustrated and declared by the lives ex- 
periences and teachings of His immediate followers. 

The 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 Chapters of John were 
Christ's instructions to enlighten them into the nature 
and character of His kingdom, that they might the 
better know how to do the part they were to act in 
declaring His kingdom to others, and for their present 
comfort and consolation till the day of the descent of 
the Spirit on them at the day of Penticost. 

In the 2d verse of the 14th chapter of John, the 
word house must have reference to the bodies, souls 
and spirits of men, as, Luke 17-21, ''The kingdom 
of God is within you." Mansions mean the many 
joys and blessings the believer experiences in his 
body, soul and spirit in persecution as well as in peace 
and quietness. 

Math. 5-10. " Blessed are they which aie per- 
secuted for righteousness sake : for theirs is the king- 
dom of heaven." 

The kingdom is spiritual in the minds of living 
men. 

In the 5 th verse, Thomas says they know not the 



220 FATHER'S HOUSE. 

way. His idea, or mind, was the same as the church 
and world have now, it respected material transactions 
as Christ's body going and coming. " The flesh 
profiteth nothing, my words they are spirit and they 
are life." m House and mansions were fulfilled on the 
day of Penticost, when the right meaning of scrip- 
tures were brought to the minds, hearts and spirits of 
believers, and all that ever since have believed in 
Jesus, as the "way, the truth and the life. ^ 

I John 3-3. "And every man that hath this hope 
in him purifyeth himself, even as he is pure." 

In this Chapter Christ is teaching His disciples to 
pray to Him, as He had before taught them to pray 
to God the Father. The Old Testament is the Fath- 
er, the New Testament the Son, and the true or right 
idea which both teach and agree in is the spirit which 
is the new heart, which God promised in the Old 
Testament to make in His sons and daughters. 

In the 1 8th verse of the 14th Chapter, Christ says : 
" I will come to you." Meaning His word coming 
in spirit, as on the day of Penticost, which fulfills 
verse 20th "At that day ye shall know that I am in 
my Father, and ye in me, and I in you." 

This fulfills all scripture, speaking or referring to 
God's kingdom, house, church, city, temple and peo- 
ple, as it was in Eden before Adam sinned, and shuts 
off all power of the flesh, the senses and satan to 
tempt or destroy in all "God's holy mountain," or 
the souls of true believers. The whole labor and work 
of Moses and of Jesus Christ was to bring man back 



FATHER S HOUSE. 22 I 

to the same state of mind and heart he had before he 
sinned, that he might manifest godliness in the flesh, 
or show forth his goodness, power and glory in con- 
necting mind with matter. This is the end for which 
man was made. And sin consists in man's using his 
independent state, in which God made him, to make 
in himself — knowingly or unknowingly — or others 
wrong and misery. The commandment to Adam, or 
to Moses, or by Jesus Christ (or the idea, or spirit 
which the word intended to convey to our, or man's, 
spirit) is as necessary to the formation aud growth of 
man's mind, or spirit as blood and food are to the 
formation of bodies. Therefore if men live only for 
material good, or things seen, they cannot have the 
spiritual, or heavenly life, which rejoices in wisdom, 
intelligence, love and universal benevolence. The life 
which the commandments give through Christ is "the 
kingdom of God within us." The fleshly life is not 
reckoned as life. The seed of the serpent have no 
part with the seed of the woman. 

John 3-36. " He that believeth on the Son hath 
everlasting life : and he that believeth not the Son shall 
not see life." 

This text leads us back to ourselves that we may 

learn how to act, think and believe, that men may 

know and do God's will and pleasure, and man may 
attain his highest good and blessedness. 

2 Timothy 3-16. "All Scripture is given by inspi- 
ration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for re- 



222 FATHER'S HOUSE. 

proof, for correction, for instruction in righteous- 
ness." 

17. "That the man of God may be perfect, thor- 
oughly furnished unto all good works." 

These texts teach that the scriptures are for living 
souls and spirits in living bodies this side the grave. 
The reason men are not perfect is because they do 
not read the scriptures to a spiritual end. 

Hebrews 3-6. " But Christ as a son over his own 
house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confi- 
dence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the 
end." 

We have in this text my Father's house of many 
mansions, material things as house, mansions, temple, 
gold, silver, and all the precious stones and pearls, as 
in Revelation the New Jerusalem coming down out of 
heaven to earth, intending to teach us the value of 
and how much more excellent faith, hope, charity, 
kindness, love, meekness, obedience, knowledge, un- 
derstanding, judgment, an enlightened conscience and 
a wise and lovingly obedient mind and spirit are es- 
teemed in the sight of God, and ought to be esteem- 
ed in the minds of men, than ignorance, anger, ha- 
tred, passion, disobedience, strife, deceit, theft, mur- 
der, prejudice and an unenlightened conscience. Thus 
God trys to teach us heavenly mindedness by the 
things most valued by earthly mindedness. 

Hebrews 3-14. "For we are made partakes of 
Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence 
steadfast unto the end." 



FATHER S HOUSE. 223 

" Christ is the end of the law" to believers. 

I Peter 4-17. "For the time is come that judg- 
ment must begin at the house of God : and if it first 
begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey 
not the gospel of God." 

If believers are judged to blessedness, unbelievers 
will be judged to misery. 

1 Peter 2-5. "Ye also, as lively stones, are built 
up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up 
spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus 
Christ." 

Spiritual sacrifices are denying ourselves the indul- 
gence of, or in. the exercises of the carnal mind, or 
anger, hatred, malice, lusts of the flesh and eye, and 
pride of life, and all wrong contrivances and inven- 
tions, even to the appearance of evil. The spiritual 
house is the believers possessing and enjoying all the 
duties and privileges taught by Christ. 

1 Corinthians 3-17. "If any man defile the tem- 
ple of God, him shall God destroy ; for the temple of 
God is holy, which temple ye are." 

Under Moses the temple was spoken of as the 
house of God. The verses previous to this shows 
every believer shall be tested, or tried by the fire of 
Christ's words, to know whether the character which 
he has formed is in accordance with the divine teach- 
ings of Christ, that all the evil exercises of his sense 
and soul may be taken away and he be pure in all his 
exercises of body, soul and spirit, or mind. 

2 Corinthians 6-16. "And what agreement hath 



224 FATHER S HOUSE. 

the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple 
of the living God ; as God hath said, I will dwell in 
them, and walk in them ; and I will be their God, and 
they shall be my people. " 

All these texts show that it is on this earth that 
holiness and blessedness is to take place. When men 
and women shall understand that they brought in 
shame and woe, then will they hasten to learn of 
Christ how to restore themselves to His favor, by do- 
ing good and not evil, and seeking to advance the 
mind with all christian graces, if it is at the expense 
of the body. 

Acts 13-10. " Wilt thou not cease to pervert the 
right ways of the Lord." 

Elymas the sorcerer must have regarded Paul's 
spiritual preaching the truth and as likely to destroy 
his deceiving way of pleasing, or interesting the peo- 
ple. To read the scriptures in such a way as to en- 
deavor to get the idea or truth of which the words 
speak cannot be " preverting " the scriptures. It is 
only getting behind the visible word to know and see 
with our own minds, or spirit, that which is invisible 
for our own souls and spirits are invisible as well as 
God's soul and spirit is invisible. Therefore this ap- 
plying spirituality to bodies this side the grave does 
not pervert or deny spirituality beyond the grave. 
As Adam did not receive his spiritual by God's breath- 
ing into him the breath of life, so children, or Christ's 
little ones, do not become spiritual by their natural 
life, but by their keeping God's commandments, and 



FATHER S HOUSE, 22 5 

children, or these little ones, must learn from mothers 
or teachers the facts and truths to keep them in the 
right exercises of soul and spirit till they attain the 
knowledge of the ideas that God's commandments in- 9 
tend to convey. 

Luke 22-29. "And I appoint unto you a king- 
dom, as my Father hath appointed unto me." 

The 24th verse says the disciples had a strife about 
who should be greatest. As appropriate to this state 
of mind Christ reprovingly makes each of them in a 
kingly state with a throne. This to after He had told 
them, to be the greatest was to do the most good, or 
service to others. The same teaching is in Christ's 
telling Peter, on this rock will I build my church, 
meaning the holy and righteous state of mind and 
heart and loving wisdom of Peter, also on all believ- 
ers after him that should have the same kind of soul 
and spirit. As a rock is enduring so are righteous- 
ness, justice, honesty, love and mercy. 

As house and mansions represent much good and 
blessings to bodies, souls and spirits, so all the christian 
graces are a shelter and defence against all the ills, 
wrongs and waywardness of body, soul and spirit. 

All extreme texts have a meaning as well as the 
common ones. God is not the God of the dead but 
of the living. This applies to characters formed in 
living bodies by holy and right exercises of the senses 
and soul faculties, or the just made perfect. 



CHAPTER XX. 

THE END, 

Gen. 6-13. "And God said unto Noah, The end 
of all flesh is come before me ; for the earth is filled 
with violence through them ; and, behold, I will de- 
stroy them with the earth." 

Numb. 24-20. "And when he looked on Ama- 
lek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was 
the first of the nations ; but his latter end shall be 
that he perish forever/' 

Deut. 32-29. "O that they were wise, that they 
understood this, that they would consider their latter 
end." 

Job 42-12. "So the Lord blessed the latter end of 
Job more than his beginning." 

Psalms 37-37. " Mark the perfect man, and be- 
hold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. 

38. "But the transgressors shall be destroyed to- 
gether ; the end of the wicked shall be cut off." 

2 Peter 2-20. ' ' For if after they have escaped 
the polutions of the w r orld through the knowledge of 



THE END. 227 

the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again en- 
tangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse 
with them than the beginning." 

These texts are all fulfilled by the powers of the 
soul and spirit whilst in the living body. 

Deuteronomy 32-20. 

Eccl. 7-2. ** It is better to go to the house of 
mourning, than to the house of feasting : for that is 
the end of all men ; and the living will lay it to his 
Heart/ 1 

This text has no reference to an existance beyond 
the grave, but refers to the living, as other texts do, 
and that we are to learn from these texts that the 
lives of good men in the flesh, by their actions and 
works in body and spirit, form a character, or spirit- 
ual body, as Paul calls it, comes into being, and is a 
living principle, and these are the multitude of the 
heavenly host and the spirits of just men made per- 
fect. God was the God of just such beings in this 
living, spiritual character, Christ refers to Him as be- 
ing the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ; and be- 
ing God of mortal bodies, so all the good minds, or 
spirits, that are formed anew in Christ Jesus, are in 
the presence of all other good minds and spirits that 
have perfected themselves by keeping God's com- 
mandments, which have lived heretofore by the 
knowledge the present living minds, or spirits have of 
them. 

Math. 18-39. " The enemy that sowed them is 



228 THE END. 

the devil ; the harvest is thg end of the world, and 
the reapers are the angels." 

Galatians 4-14. 

Hebrews 9-26. " For then must he often have 
suffered since the foundation of the world: but now 
once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put 
away sin by the sacrifice of himself/' 

I Cor. io-ii. "Now all these things happened 
unto them for ensamples : and they are written for our 
admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are 
come. " 

7-31. "And they that use this world, as not abus- 
ing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away." 

I John 2-17. "And the world passeth away, and 
the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God 
abideth forever. 

18. " Little children, it is tiie last time : and as ye 
have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are 
there many antichrists ; whereby we know that it is 
the last time." 

The coming of Christ at the end of the world as 
set forth in Matthew 24th, Mark 13th and Luke 21st, 
is with a cloud, referring to the cloud in "the time of 
Moses and Solomon, when there was a visible appear- 
ance that that tokened God's presence to speak to 
His people and hear their suplications and requests. 
The clouds spoken of as attending Christ's coming are 
not concerning Him, but men's minds in their doubts, 
unbelief, ignorance, imaginings, hopes and fears, and 
with the haters of God it is the cloud of blackness, 



THE END. 229 

and darkness, and thunderings, and lightnings, by 
the many ways that men torment and destroy each 
other, and the ways in which men transgress the laws 
of nature and revelation. 

Christ said all the blood shed from Able to Zecha- 
riah should be required of this generation, and that 
He came to take away sin and make an end of it, 
and He was made sin for us that we might be made 
the righteousness of God in Him who knew no sin. 
The end of the world was in Christ's coming in the 
flesh and abolishing the Jewish religion of atonements, 
sacrifices, and observance of times and shedding of 
blood. Their material works of body and blood of 
animals was the world, because so much of it was 
the invention of man and what was of God's regula- 
tion made the heavenly, hence the expression he 
would shake heaven that the things that could not be 
shaken might remain. Obedience to God's com- 
mandments could not be shaken ; love to God and 
our neighbor was a heavenly thing that could not be 
shaken; obedience by children to parents is a heaven- 
ly thing that cannot be shaken ; all laws and govern- 
ments that are in accordance w r ith good and right be- 
long to heavenly things. 

Christ's kingdom, or coming, as spoken above is in 
repenting and forsaking our sins and bringing forth 
fruits meete for repentance,, which are plainly set forth 
in his explanation of the commandments, which show 
that it is in the state of mind, or heart, by which we 
sin against God or our fellow man, and this is what 



230 THE END, 

He meat when He said, my kingdom is not of this 
world. Not of the material Mosaic, bloody religion, 
but of an enlightened mind and conscience and knowl- 
ndge of right and good, which could exercise the un- 
derstanding, that the judgment might be on the side 
of truth and right, able to direct all the powers of the 
senses and soul in right and good to the growth of 
the spirit in all heavenly wisdom and blessedness. 

The subjects of Christ's spiritual kingdom take 
pleasure in the knowledge of things that are true in 
nature as well as in grace, or revelation. By the 
knowledge of material things the mind is enlarged 
and better enabled to comprehend things revealed. 
The mind in its beginnings can comprehend things 
seen, which are seperate from itself, before it can un- 
derstand the powers of mind by which this mind 
work is done. The beginnings of mind work neces- 
sarily will be on things seen, or material objects, by 
which exercise there will be a growth, or acquisition, 
of mind power which will enable it to learn and know 
its own nature and attributes, and how to exercise 
them for the highest good of itself and its greatest 
advancement and possession of those qualities of 
mind and spirit which belong to things not seen yet 
are eternal. This spiritual, loving, understanding, 
wise and holy state of soul and spirit enables man to 
exercise that power which the Creator has endowed 
him with, for his own best good and the good of all 
other creatures and things. This would glorify the 
Creator, and it would be to man a good reward worth 



THE END. 231 

living for, and accomplish and fulfill all the declara- 
tions and prophesies of both the Old and New Test 
aments. 

Deut. 32-20, "And he said, I will hide my face 
from them, I will see what their end shall be : for 
they are a very froward generation, children in whom 
is no faith." 

We can infer from this text that froward and faith- 
less souls shall have an end. . 

1 Samuel 3-12. "In that day I will perform 
against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning 
his house: when I begin, I will also make an end." 

The end of persons, or families, come in conse- 
quence of their disobedience, or vileness, and also 
as a punishment. What a blessed thing for Adam 
and his posterity that he was not permitted to eat of 
the tree of life while he was in a state of mind of 
fear and shame before God and himself. An eternal 
life in such a state of mind would be worse than nev- 
er being. 

Math. 26-24. " But woe unto that man by whom 
the Son of man is betrayed ! it had been good for 
that man if he had not been born." 

Psalms 7-9. "O let the wickedness of the wicked 
come to an end ; but establish the just." 

Psalms 9-6. "O thou enemy, destructions have 
come to a perpetual end." 

In these texts the hopes and desires are longingly 
expressed that wickedness and destructions should 
have an end. 



232 THE END. 

Lam. 1-9. " Her filthiness is in her skirts; she 
remembereth not her last end." 

In the indulgence of the pleasures of sense the mis- 
erable end is forgotten, but it will come. 

Num. 24-20. "Amalek was the first of the na- 
tions ; but his latter end shall be that he perish for- 
ever/' 

Deut. 8-16. " Who fed thee in the wilderness with 
manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might 
humble thee, to do thee good at thy latter end." 

The humble obedient soul shall have good in its lat- 
ter end, so the soul in Christ shall have good all the 
time. 

Prov. 5-4. "But her end is as bitter as worm- 
wood, sharp as a twoedged sword." 

Eccl. 7-2. "It is better to go to the house of 
mourning, than to go to the house of feasting , for 
that is the end of all men." 

The end in this verse refers to the purpose of God 
in man's fulfilling His will as being the head or glory 
of His creation of this world, and to connect matter 
with mind, or to unite material with imaterial, or to 
so organize dust, or matter with such corporial powers 
and functions, so that soul and spirit might be one 
with it, and at the same time in three parts, as body, 
soul and spirit. Thus God could be manifested in 
the flesh by His attributes of justice, equity, right- 
eousness and goodness, exercised by man on material 
things for his own good, which would show forth the 
Creator's glory. Also these godly attributes of mind 



THE END. 233 

would if exercised in loving obedience make him 
worthy of the appellation of "sons and daughters of 
the Lord God Almighty/' 

Isaiah 16-4. '* For the extortioner is at an end, 
the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out 
of the land." 

This text is fulfilled by every soul being made new 
creatures in Christ Jesus who made an end of sin. 

Isaiah 38-12. " He will cut me off with pining 
sickness : from day even to night wilt thou make an 
end of me." 

Hezekiah is speaking of the life that he was living 
out in the body, it had no reference to an existence 
beyond the grave. 

Jeremiah 44-27. " Behold, I will watch over them 
for evil, and not for good : and all the men of Judah 
that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by 

the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of 
them." 

The end of man in this verse is the end of sin. 
All things created, especialy that which man acts a 
part in, must have an end. God created man good, 
in the wrong use of that good man made sin and thus 
brought death and destruction on himself. " Dust 
thou art and to dust thou shalt return." If with all 
the teachings, commandments and instructions which 
God has given to man he uses them for greater wick- 
edness, it will make his destruction in the end doubly 
shure. "To be carnaly minded is death : but to be 
spiritualy minded is life and peace." Loving obedi- 
ance secures spiritual life. 



2$4 M£ END * 

Jeremiah 51-13. "O thou that dwellest upon 
mafty waters, abundant m treasures, thine end is 
coirte, and the measure of thy coovetousness. " 

The end of Babylon is the end of her sin. 

Ezek, 7-3, "Now is the end come upon thee, 
and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge 
thee according to thy ways, and will recompense 
Upon thee all thine abominations/' 

The end in this text means the end of sin as well as 
the end of Babylon. 

Ezk. 21-25, "And thou, profane wicked prince of 
Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have 
an end." 

By this we must conclude iniquity does not contin- 
ue longer than the body. 

John 8-24. " I said therefore unto you, that ye 
shall die in your sins ; for if ye believe not that I am 
he, ye shall die in your sins." 

Psalms 1 1-6. "Upon the wicked he shall rain 
snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: 
this shall be the portion of their cup." 

This alludes to Sodom and Gomarrah and Egypt. ' 

Dan, 9-24, ' ' Seventy weeks are determined upon 
thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the 
transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to 
make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in ever- 
lasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and 
prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy." 

There was an end of sin, as far as Christ was con- 
cerned, and an end to all punishment to believers for 



THE END. 235 

their sins, although they might suffer as a consequence 
of wrong doing, or for right doing as Christ did. 
This promise is fulfilled because there would be no 
more work done by the Creator to help man to over- 
come sin. Christ on the cross finished all that could 
be done in the flesh, and on the day of penticost He 
gave a full and finished work in the spirit. If man 
will not be saved by this salvation he cannot be saved 
at all. The second coming of Christ will be "with- 
out sin unto salvation," or His spiritual coming, as on 
the day of penticost was the power of God on the 
minds of men to make them understand the scriptures 
and in loving obedience to become good and blessed. 

1 Sam. 3-12. " In that day I will perform against 
Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his 
house: when I begin, I will also make an end." 

Aaron and his sons througout all their generations 
were promised the priests office, but in this promise 
as in all others it was made to the righteous. The 
man in his wickedness is not promised any good. 
The beginning and end respecting Eli is this side the 
grave. The sin ends with his body. In Adam's 
body and soul creation for a time he lived and had 
communion with his Maker, but he did not sin till he 
was put on his own responsibility by the command* 
ment which was given him. If he obeyed it would 
be the beginning of a character which would be good, 
and would be to his blessedness, and would be ac- 
counted as his will and would glorify God in the work 
of His creation. And thus man would work in and 



2^6 THE END. 

with good in accordance with God's ending. Man's 
beginning was only the continuing of God's, or the 
Creator's work, by the means of man's body and soul 
exercises, that God might be " manifest in the flesh." 
Adam was the author, or beginner of sin in his re- 
jection of the idea, or spirit of the command which 
represented all the attributes of mind, or spirit of 
God. In this Adam became evil as well as good, and 
all that follow and are governed by the flesh, or things 
seen, must turn to dust according to the declaration 
in Gen. 3-19. "But all who know and follow the 
idea, or spirit, or things not seen shall have life with- 
out end." Things not seen are all the faculties of 
soul and attributes of mind, or spirit of God or man. 

1 Cor. 2-1 1. "For what man knoweth the things 
of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him ? 
even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the 
Spirit of God." 

2 Cor. 4-18. "While we look not at the things 
which are seen, but at the things which are not seen : 
for the things which are seen are temporal ; but the 
things which are not seen are eternal." 

All men can testify to their own exercises of soul 
and spirit, that they are invisible to the material eye. 
All contrivence, plans, theories, commands and entret- 
ies are mand up by the faculties of soul and attributes 
of mind. 

Math. 10-22. "And ye shall be hated of all men 
for my name's sake : but he that endureth to the end 
shall be saved." 



THE END. 237 

In the believer the end of the world has come for 
he must repent of, and forsake all wrong thoughts 
and inventions of mind and all wrong actions of 
body. So it is sin and misery that has an end, for 
man began it and man must end it. God began a 
good work in the creation of the world, and man was 
good in all that God made him, and his spiritual crea- 
tion was to be perfected, through, or by the exercises 
of his body and soul powers in loving obedience to 
the Creator's teachings and commandments. The 
Creator, or God, continued His good work to make 
man good and blessed by His more fully revealing 
His law and commandments to His chosen people by 
Moses, and made an end of His good work in Jesus 
Christ, for He was the sample and example of what 
God intended man should be. God began His work 
in Adam and finished it in Jesus. No wonder that 
holy fathers and mothers study and labor to find out 
the Christ way that they may not only be the means 
of the Adam creation of their children, but also of 
Christ's. 

Math. 13-49. " So shall it be at the end of the 
world : the angels shall come forth, and sever the 
wicked from among the just." 

43. "Who hath ears to hear, let him hear." 

Christ means the unseen ears. 

John 8-43. "Why do ye not understand my 
speech? even because ye cannot hear my word." 

Math. 25—3 1, to the end of the Chapter, is a 
sample of what is meant by the end of the world, 



238 THE END. 

when the difference between the righteous, and the 
wicked will be clearly understood. The righteous 
will be separate from the wicked in spirit, purpose 
and character, if not in body. The one will be as 
distinct from the other as though there was an impas- 
sable gulf between. 

1 Cor. 6-2. " Do ye not know that the saints shall 
judge the world? 

3. " Know ye not that we shall judge angels ?" 

John 12-48. "The word that I have spoken, the 
same shall judge him in that last day." 

The last day is when he shall forsake sin and do 
works mete for repentance. Righteousness has no 
last day in or of God, or man. 

John 5-22. "For the Father judgeth no man, 
but hath commited all judgment unto the Son." 

Christ was the end of the law for righteous, and he 
only that can keep the law which the Son did is able 
to judge saint and sinner. It is the mind of Christ in 
the believer which enables him to judge between right 
and wrong. 

Math. 24-14. "And this gospel of the kingdom 
shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto 
all nations: and then shall the end come." 

The end of God's work to save men. The end of 
supernatural work. God can work by the natural 
means in man to bring about his salvation, and man 
can acknowledge that it is God that works in him of 
His own good pleasure. The nations are all made of 
one blood, so have they all one nature. In these two 



THE END. 239 

particulars they are gathered into one. So it may be 
said the nations are gathered together to judgment. 
They are all alike to the intelligent mind as one man, 
each knows the law and in knowledge stands face to 
face with the lawgiver, whether in one place or scat- 
tered all over the earth. Spiritually read, all texts are 
easy and profitable. 

Luke 21-32. " Verily I say unto you, This gen- 
eration shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.' ' 

This text refers to the fulfilling of Christ's work in 
the body, and of His teachings and commandments 
to all the nations of the earth, and of the work of 
the Holy Spirit on the day of Penticost, which was 
His second coming, or His spiritual coming, showing 
what it was to have the kingdom of God within the 
minds and hearts of men. And if it was no more 
than the first fruits of a plentiful harvest, it is suffici- 
ent evidence to show what the kingdom was and 
what it would be to all if they would accept of it in 
all its fullness. 

Luke 22-37. "For I say unto you, that this that 
is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he 
was reckoned among the transgressors : for the things 
concerning me have an end." 

Jesus here means the end of His work in the body 
or flesh. The end of His sin work. This second, or 
spiritual work would be without sin unto salvation. 
He gave a specimen of this salvation on the day of 
Penticost. And although supernatural help was given 
it was only to show the attainment of that knowledge 



24O THE END. 

and understanding of the commandments and teach- 
ings of Moses and Jesus Christ which was necessary 
to love and obedience, which can and ought to be 
attained by the use of senses and soul faculties, which 
would result in the same state of mind. 

John 13-1. " He loved them unto the end." 

The end of His temporal work and end of His 
spiritual work. 

18-37. "Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a 
king. To this end was I born, and for this cause 
came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto 
the truth." 

Christ was and is king of minds, or spirits, in liv- 
ing bodies in this material world, ruling all things 
seen by this invisible power of wisdom, intelligence, 
and righteous understanding which makes up the 
mind of the Creator and Redeemer, and ought to 
make up the mind that dwells in all living bodies in 
this w r orld of humanity. 

Rom. 10-4. "For Christ is the endbf the law for 
righteousness to every one that believeth." 

The end of the law of Moses was that men should 
know it and love and obey it, and be blessed. Christ 
had the same end in view, but not as Moses,, making 
bodily obedience by material law, but by making the 
immaterial part of man the spiritual, inteligently wise 
and good and loving. The body and soul is directed 
into all loving obedience, which fulfills both the law 
of commandments and love. 

"The first shall be last and the last first." The 



THE END. 24I 

law of Moses was first in time, but last in importance; 
but the law of Christ, or of love, is last in time and 
first in importance. 

1 Cor. 15-24. "Then cometh the end, when he 
shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the 
Father; when he shall have put down all rule, and all 
authority and power. 

26. "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is 
death." 

Meaning the soul misery caused by wrong doing, 
or disobedience. The threatned death to Adam, the 
misery of soul of Peter. " To be carnally minded is 
death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." 

Christ by His spiritual power and rule had super- 
ceded and overcome all temporal power and govern- 
ment, so if every soul will accept and possess this 
spiritual power it will gouvern him and rule him into 
all righteousness and goodness, so that all the old 
ways of physical or material governing will be done 
away. This actually took place in Christ while He 
was in the body and it will take place in every body 
that had in it "the mind of Christ and the spirit of 
him who raised him from the dead." 

Heb. 9-26. "But now once in the end of the 
world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacri- 
fice of himself." 

This text is the fulfillment of Isaiah's prophesies 
and promises, and others, ' ' when all tears shall be 
wiped away from all faces," and God would put His 
spirit upon all flesh, and write His law on all hearts. 



242 THE END. 

Behold I make all things new — or pardon of sin — by; 
repentance, and forsaking and renewing of the mind 
instead of shedding of blood, obeying the spirit in- 
stead of the letter. The answer of the petition, 
"Thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven.'' 

i Peter 4-7. " But the end of all things is at hand: 
be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer." 

All things in this text is what God had done by 
Moses and Jesus Christ in the flesh, to save men from 
sin and misery. The new and living way by the holy 
spirit, manifested in Christ, does away with the shed- 
ding of animal blood for the pardon of sin. This is 
one meaning of the end of the world. The new 
heavens and earth which Peter was looking for was 
the holiness of heart and life which believers would 
manifest in spirit and action. 

Heb. 7-16. "Who is made not after the law of a 
carnal commandment, but after the power of an end- 
less life. ,, 

I Cor. icmii. "Now all these things happened 
unto them for ensamples: and they are written for 
our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are 
come." 

The world of sin and misery which man had made 
came to an end in Christ and in His believers. The 
Creator's world work came to an end in Christ's bod- 
ily work. This is the spiritual meaning of world in 
the Old and New Testament. The material world is 
meant in some texts. 

From the foregoing texts it is plain that an end is 



THE END. 243 

declared sometimes and an organized being turned 
back to its original elements. Of man it is declared, 
''dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return." 
Of cities, and man's inventions in works of art and 
mechanism. "How long will ye imagine mischief 
against a man;, ye shall be slain all of you." All 
kinds and ways of wrong, misery and disobedience 
have no promise of life, (Christ life,) but are "under 
condemnation," because they have not accepted of 
the "way" of life. 

The spiritual "way" of reading texts of scripture 
leads us to man as almost the only object of revela- 
tion, and of man it is almost wholly of his soul and 
spirit. Therefore we must be wise to not loose the 
spiritual or mind meaning because the letter of the 
text uses material things to convey from God's mind 
to man's mind an idea that man's mind, or spirit, 
might be made, or created, or renewed, or made a 
new creature, and grow into the image of the Creator 
as was intended in the beginning. 

In the destruction of the world by a flood of water, 
the reason given is the "violence that filled the 
earth;" "and every imagination of his heart was 
only evil continual," although it is said of the earth 
as being filled with violence, it is because of man, not 
even because of his body, but of his mind, or spirit 
and heart that all things that had life died. "As man 
thinketh so is he." Adam sinned in body and his 
body suffered, yet the soul exercises caused the sin. 
So God was manifest in the flesh that He might show 



*44 THE END. 

that a soul could live in the flesh and not sin, so that 
all souls might live without sin. Christ's coming in 
the body was a necessary expedient to manifest the 
soul and spirit that all bodies should and can have in 
them. Hence His body went away that man might 
be shut up to the spiritual. Christ's words (meaning 
the ideas his words convey,) " they are spirit and they 
are life, the flesh profiteth nothing. " Ever since the 
flood fire has been the representative of suffering and 
destruction. Sodom was burned more for the wicked 
minds than for the houses or city. 

Esther 1-12. ' 'Therefore was the king very wroth, 
and his anger burned in him." 

It is his soul faculties that burns, his soul is set on 
fire of hell. 

Psalms 79-5. "How long, Lord? wilt thou be 
angry forever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire? 

The bad exercises of the passions are destructive, 
therefore the result is like fire on wood. 

Isaiah 4-4. " By the spirit of judgment, and by 
the spirit of burning. ,, 

In this text the burning is reformatory, as the fur- 
nace refines and makes the silver pure, so affliction 
tends to refine humanity and that opnes the way to 
exhaltation. 

Exodus 15-15. "All the inhabitants of Canaan 
shall melt away." 

Josh. 5-1. "Heard that the Lord had dried up 
the waters of Jordan from before the children of 
Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart 



THE END. 245 

melted, neither was their spirit in them any more, be- 
cause of the children of Israel." 

Melting is here applied to men's souls, which will 
help us to read other texts. 

Psalms 1 12-10. "He shall gnash with his teeth, 
and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish." 

Amos 9-5. "And the Lord God of hosts is he 
that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that 
dwell therein shall mourn : and it shall rise up wholly 
like a flood." 

Nahum 1-5. "The mountains quake at him, and 
the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, 
and all that dwell therein." 

As the old world was drowned by water, so the 
next great destroyer is fire, and the misery and suffer- 
ing of wicked men is represented as in fire. " Wick- 
edness burneth as the fire." Isaiah 9-18. 

Fire in the Old Testament is represented as burn- 
ing the earth, mountains flow down at His presence ; 
The heart and soul is represented as melting. This is 
all in the Old Testament. Having this instruction 
we are better able to read Christ's, and Paul's and 
Peter's expressions about souls, bodies and the earth 
being burned in the last day. 

Jeremiah 31-34. "And they shall teach no more 
every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, 
saying, Know the Lord : for they shall all know me, 
from the least of them unto the greatest oi them, 
saith the Lord : for I will forgive their iniquity, and I 
will remember their sin no more." 



246 THE END. 

50-20. "In those days, and in that time, saiththe 
Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and 
there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they 
shall not be found : for I will pardon them whom I 
reserve/' 

The meaning of these texts is, that God in Moses 
and Jesus Christ had done all that need be done to 
enable man to keep His commandments, that he 
might have no excuse for continuance in disobedience, 
or sin. All believers in Jesus Christ may, and can so 
live as to escape all punishment, and will enable them 
to be in the presence (by their minds and spirits while 
in living bodies) of their Creator, Redeemer and Pre- 
server without fear or shame. Yea, more they shall 
have joy, peace and gladness in the spiritual presence 
of the King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, the only 
wise God. 

The knowledge spoken of in those texts must be 
in the Mother's mind before she begins to fulfill the 
the family command spoken of in the first chapter of 
Genesis. The Lord was not ashamed to communi- 
cate with mothers about their offspring, as in the case 
of Sampson's mother, John the Baptist's and Mary 
the mother of Jesus. Parents being filled with the 
knowledge of the teachings of God, Moses and Jesus 
Christ can be coworkers with God in filling the 
mind of the infant with truths according to its grow- 
ing capacity, to the perfecting of the spiritual birth 
that there may be no sin in it. This is one of the 
ways in which sin will be lost sight of and be remem- 



THE END. 247 

bered no more, and this is the Lord's way as much 
as though it were done by a miracle. This is one of 
the ways by which the world of sin and misery is to 
come to an end, and the new heavens and new earth 
wherein dwelleth righteousness be created. War and 
slavery have been done away with by the fire of God's 
truth coming out of the mouths of Peace Societies 
and Ante Slavery Societies. Monarchal Governments 
are being superseded by Constitutional Governments, 
which makes each citizen responsible as well as secur- 
es to each the proceeds of his own labor. Arbitra- 
tion to settle differences of opinion is what belongs to 

the new heavens and new earth, because it is mind or 
spirit work. 

The Bible being translated into so many languages, 
and some of the more ignorant nations laying aside 
their barbarous ways of governing, adopting Christian 
laws for their government and Christian usages in 
their social and family relations, this also belongs to 
the new heavens and new earth. Some work has not 
respect to time, "a thousand years are as one day." 
Many of the inventions of men (or of God through 
man) supersede something wrong, or create a good, 
or remove a less good and place a greater in its place. 
Scientific study and knowledge help to build the new 
heavens and new earth. All new facts and truths 
help to build up the kingdom of God in the souls and 
spirits of men, by enlarging their knowledge, en- 
lightening their understanding, that the judgment may 
be complete in deciding all questions of right and 
wrong. 



248 BODY, SOUL AND SPIRIT. 

" Behold the end of all things is at hand/' meaning 
all things God had done by Moses and Jesus Christ 
to help man to overcome ignorance and sin, that he 
might "work out his own salvation, knowing it was 
God working in him to will and to do of His own 
good pleasure." It is the spirit of all scripture that 
man should think, contrive and know according to 
God's good pleasure, which he can by knowing and 
obeying His commandments. 



CHAPTER XXL 

BODY, SOUL AND SPIRIT, THEIR CREATION AND UNION. 

Adam's body was created before it had a soul. 
The breath (or spirit) that God breathed into him 
made him a living soul. That is he was endowed 
with all the functions of body, as our own bodies wit- 
ness. The faculties of the soul were desires, affec- 
tions, hopes, fears, passions and imaginations, this 
made him higher than the brutes, a little lower than 
the angels. These functions of body and faculties of 



BODY, SOUL AND SPIRIT. 249 

soul in their right exercise makes experience, creates 
and learns facts and truths, if right and good and in 
accordance with the commandments of God creates 
knowledge and this rightly arranged makes under- 
standing. Right judgment made of or by right un- 
derstanding enlightens the conscience, directs the will 
and all the soul powers and the bodily sensations. 
Here we have the bodily senses, the soul faculties and 
the attributes of mind or spirit. These three parts, 
each doing its allotted work, results in manifesting 
the spiritual attributes of the Creator. This is the 
end for which man was made. 

Here is the union Christ speaks of in John 14-20. 
"In that day ye shall know that the Father is in me 
and I in you.'' Luke 17-21. "The kingdom of 
God is within you." In the soul and spirit in living 
bodies. "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the king- 
dom." 

By the right exercises of this right soul and spirit 
work a character is formed making one of the resur- 
rected bodies Paul speaks of in the 1 5 Chapter of I 
Corinthians, which is a living principle of the angelic 
nature, and is eternal before Cod and spirits in living 
bodies. "God is the God of the living not of the 
dead." "Before Abraham was I am." 

The Bible teaches of a heaven and a hell this side 
the grave, and the revelation of Moses and the Me- 
siah was to enable us to attain to the one and escape 
other. Moses says God's commandments, or law, 
are our life. — Deuteronomy 32-47 Christ says: 



250 BODY, SOUL AND SPIRIT. 

"And I know his commandment is life everlasting." — 
John 12-50. "And this is life eternal, that they 
might know thee, the only true and living God and 
Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." — John 17-3. 
The Christ spirit was in the commandment given to 
Adam, and it would have saved him if he had obey- 
ed it. 

The new covenant God promised in the Old Testa- 
ment to make with His people, and put His law and 
His spirit in them; the heart He gives is in the spirit, 
for we cannot speak of the affections as knowing 
things. The things of man knoweth no man save the 
spirit of man which is in him. Even so the things of 
God knoweth no man, but the spirit of God. Here 
is the two worlds so much spoken of in the Bible — 
the spirit world and material world. When the spirit 
world rules as it should the material, so far as sin and 
misery is concerned, shall be burned, not drowned. 

Deut. 28-22. ' ' With an inflamation and with an 
extreme burning. ,, 

Isaiah 6-18. "For wickedness burneth as the 
fire." 

Isaiah 4-4. "By the spirit of judgment and the 
spirit^of burning." 

The burning of the world will be like the drowning. 
The words of Christ will be to believers a fire to warm 
and give life, but to unbelievers they will be a con- 
suming fire. A perfect sample was on the day of 
Penticost. 

Solomon speaks of understanding and of knowledge 



BODY, SOUL AND SPIRIT. 25 I 

as belonging to wisdom, or the Christ power. God's 
spirit is right and good and saving, and this is the 
reason we are so often urged to have it. 

This spirit rightly used by parents may bring their 
children into a saved state as well as to convicting and 
converting sinners. Hannah, Elisabeth, Mary, Tim- 
othy's grandmother and mother are samples of this 
kind. 

Jeremiah 3-15, "And I will give you pastors ac- 
cording to mine heart, which shall feed you with 
knowledge and understanding." 

Daniel speaking of the Mesiah says that, he should 
finish transgressions and make an end of sins. — Dan. 
9-24. 

Christ says, "All the righteous blood from Abel to 

Zechariah shall be required of this generation." 

Christ said on the cross, it is finished, meaning all 
that God could do to make men good and blessed was 
done, and henceforth men in the flesh were in the 
same state as they were before the law of Moses was 
given, and God recognizes only the spirit against 
which sin cannot be forgiven, because atonements be- 
long to the flesh. Body and soul can be destroyed in 
hell, but the soul willingly governed by the spirit will 
be made partaker of its eternal character. 

Out of Christ, of right, of good, of blessedness is 
being without life ; without Christ is being in wrong, 
in evil and misery. He that is righteous let him be 
righteous still, and he that is holy let him be holy 
still, and he that is unjust let him be unjust still, and 
he that is filthy let him be filthy still 



252 BODY, SOUL AND SPIRIT. 

It is the keeping of the commandments that gives 
a right to the tree of life, enables us to enter into the 
city. Without are all wickedness and misery. Let 
every one who reads this work, with body, soul and 
spirit, and thus cooporate with the finished work of 
God, in Christ, to abolish death and sin, which will 
glorify God and make souls eternal. 

The holy, righteous, loving, obedient, wise soul 
and spirit of man is what God legards with the high- 
est interest, and for man to attain to this godly state 
is the highest object of which he can take cognizance. 
All that we can know of what was before us, or what 
will be after us, is secondary to what we should and 
can know while the body has a living soul and spirit 
in it. The great reason of this is because the Creator 
gave man a will as well as all the other faculties of 
soul, and He cannot control the will only in the way 
He has instructed us into by His revelation and our 
own experience. 

1 read the Bible with the idea, or plan, that it is a 
revelation for man, or to man's soul and spirit while 
the body has in it a living soul. God breathed into 
Adam the breath of life, and he became a living soul. 
This is true of every living body, and between this 
and the time when the spirit, or breath, returns to 
God who gave it, can be used by and is adapted to 
man in body, soul and spirit, to help, or to make, him 
to be good and do good, and thus attain to eternal 

life, or an unbroken blessed state of soul and spirit. 

2 Cor. 6-18. "Ye shall be my sons and daughters, 
saith the Lord God Almighty." 



WHAT WE BELIEVE. 253 

Rom. 14-22. " Happy is he that condemneth not 
himself in that which he aloweth." 

1 Cor. 3-23. ''All things are yours, and ye are 
Christ's, and Christ is God's. " 

Adam could gain eternal life only by keeping God's 
commandment, and his soul experiences, and this is 
the same with all his posterity. Parents must bear 
the responcibility of infants and children till they can 
by their experience, and the knowledge of God's com. 
mandments, learn to chose good from evil. Man may 
live through a thousand generations in the soul and 
body life, and this would glorify God because there is 
no other organized matter that can show, or manifest, 
contrivance, design, wisdom, even though its end 
should be as its beginning, nothing. 



CHAPTER XXII 



WHAT WE BELIEVE. 



In the Congregationalist of August 8, 1877, is a 
communication headed, "What we Believe," by I. 
W. K. An extract from the Christian Register is first 
given, intended to show Moody's opinion that ' 'char- 
acter has nothing to do with man's salvation ; that is 



254 WHAT WE BELIEVE. 

a work Christ has done for us." Salvation by Jesus 
Christ is by His character which takes hold of all His 
acts, spiritual as well as sensual, or bodily. As there 
is no merit in acts of the law, or bodily acts, it leaves 
all merit to acts of mind, or spirit, and this is appli- 
cable to Christ as well as to believers. He said of 
Himself, "the flesh profiteth nothing, my words they 
are spirit and they are life." 

John 17-3. "And this is life eternal, that they 
might know the only true God, and Jesus Christ, 
whom thou hast sent." 

In these texts it is mind, soul, or spirit work that 
makes salvation in Christ, or in the believer, as God's 
righteousness brought salvation the same before 
Christ's death as since. Christ's bodily actions and 
death belonged to the Mosaic dispensation more than 
it did to spiritual, or dispensation of grace. 

Romans 5-10, "For if, when we were enemies, 
we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son ; 
much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by 
his life." 

Col. 1-2 1. "And you that were sometime alienat- 
ed and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet 
now hath he reconciled 

22. "In the body of his flesh through death, to 
present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable 
in his sight : 

23. "If ye continue in the faith grounded and 
settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the 
gospel, which ye have heard." 



WHAT WE BELIEVE. 255 

In these texts reconciliation is on account of Christ's 
death and sufferings, but salvation for the believer is 
through His life and the believers holy and faithful 
continuance in the hope of the gospel. God's king, 
dom, or the heavenly kingdom, is in the souls and 
spirits of men whilst the spirit is in the living body. 
Here are the two worlds, things seen, or temporal, 
are what we can see with our bodily eyes ; things 
seen with our minds, or understanding and knowledge, 
are the things not seen, or eternal, and this is the 
spiritual so much referred to in the scriptures. Paul's 
faith is in this part of man, where all merit of contriv- 
ance, plan, or inventions is made up, whether it be of 
things seen or unseen. The bodily actions evidence, 
or make manifest, the workings and inventions of this 
invisible part of man — 1 Cor. 2-1 1 — and by means of 
this double action the character is formed, which at- 
taches to every person after the body is dead as well 
as before, and this is the resurrected body Paul speaks 
of in 1 Cor. 15 Chapter. These are the living Abra- 
ham, Isaac and Jacob that Christ referred the Jews to 
when He said, God was not the God of the dead but 
of the living. To have this living, holy, blessed 
character attached to every living body was the end 
for which Christ embodied ' Himself in the flesh to 

show man what it was to be in the image of God. 
The spirit Christ showed under temptation, suffering 
and death is the same every believer must have in 
order to come into possession of that full salvation 
which Christ offers every obedient soul and every re- 
pentent sinner. 



25 6 WHAT WE BELIEVE. 

When every body, soul and spirit shall possess the 
Christ spirit all will try to do each other good, that 
joy and peace may be in every heart, and this is an- 
other way to state the end for which Christ came in 
the flesh. This was Christ's state of mind. He had 
overcome the world. Paul says, Christ suffered for 
the joy that was set before Him, and this blessed 
state of man is another way to state the end for which 
Christ came into the world. The reason this blessed 
state does not possess every man is in himself. 

Christ's reference to His own blood as atoning for 
sin has reference to the Mosaic law, and to the state 
of mind of the Jews that there could be no remission 
of sin without the shedding of blood. 

Heb. 9-22. "And almost all things are by the 
law purged with blood." 

Paul says, ■ ' by the deeds of the law shall no flesh 
living be justified." As the shedding of the blood 
of animals had not made the world happy, so the 
shedding of Christ's blood only reconciled God to the 
world. It is the eternal spirit that makes Christ's blood 
efficacious, and as there is no record or declaration 
that God instituted the shedding of blood, He could 
abolish it and justify the sinner by the eternal spirit 
of Christ — which he receives and it manifests itself in 
his holy life and conversation. This right state of 
mind is what made Abel, Samuel and David accepted. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 

THE GREAT END FOR WHICH CHRIST CAME INTO 
THE WORLD. 

Acts 1-3 speaks of what Christ told the disciples 
after His resurrection of the kingdom of God. The 
previous verse refers to what He had commanded 
them before His resurrection, and all will agree that 
the great commandment we learn from Christ's words 
and teachings is to love one another. Although 
Christ says the first and great commandment is to love 
God, yet we cannot in any other way so perfectly 
manifest our love to God as by a perfect and just love 
to our fellowmen. 

Math. 7-12. " Therefore all things whatsoever ye 
would that men should do to you, do ye even so to 
them : for this is the law and the prophets." 

Lev. 19-18. "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear 
any grudge against the children of thy people, but 
thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." 

Matthew 22-40. "On these two commandments 
hang all the law and the prophets." 



25^ THE GREAT END. 

Roman 13-8. "Owe no man any thing, but to 
love one another : for he that loveth another hath ful- 
filled the law. 

9. "For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, 
Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt 
not bear false witness. Thou shalt not covet : and if 
there be any other commandment, it is briefly com- 
prehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love 
thy neighbour as thyself. 

10. "Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: there- 
fore love is the fulfilling of the law," 

Gal. 5-14. "For all the law is fulfilled in one 
word, even in this ; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as 
thyself." 

1 Tim. 1-5. "Now the end of the commandment 
is charity out oi a pure heart, and of a good con- 
science, and of faith unfained." 

These texts show the love of God manifested by 
believers from their hearts to one another; it also 
manifests what the kingdom of God was, or is, that 
Christ came into the world to set up. The light on 
the heads of the disciples was of the temporal, or 
things seen, the effect on their minds, was of things 
not seen, or eternal. Christ's material body and works 
of miracles by healing deseases must proecede this 
spiritual miracle on the soul, or spirit of man, that 
the spiritual kingdom might be more perfectly reveal- 
ed and man more perfectly understand and receive it. 
God in the creation of man began with the material 
in Adam, and in the law of Moses, and the body of 



THE GREAT END, 



259 



Jesus, and in the spirit of Jesus Christ while in the 
flesh, and the work of the holy spirit on the minds or 
hearts of persons on the day of Penticost perfected 
man spiritually, according to ail the teachings and 
prophecies of the Old Testament. 

This long process was necessitated because man 
willed to live after the flesh, instead of willing to use 
the soul faculties to acquire the knowledge by obedi- 
ence whereby he might attain to that spiritual wisdom, 
which from the beginning to the end was the power 
that made man blessed and glorified God. This pow- 
er of knowledge, intelligence and blessedness which 
took possession of souls on the day of Penticost man- 
ifests to all other souls what it is to be born again, to 
be new creatures, to be raised from the spiritual death, 
to drink of living water and be made possessers of all 
the blessings of which the body, soul and spirit of 
man is capable. Peter shows by the law, and the 
prophets and Jesus Christ that this was God's last 
work in these last days, to bring in everlasting right- 
eousness, and that man is required by faith, and re- 
pentance and obedience to be a coworker with him to 
make His righteousness without end in minds, hearts 
and spirits of men, which fulfilles God's declarations 
that He is ruler of heaven and earth, of things both 
seen and unseen. 

Acts 2-39. "For the promise is unto you, and to 
your children, and to all that are afar off, even as 
many as the Lord our God shall call." 

In these chapters there is no reference made to a 



26o THE GREAT END. 

a state after the death of the body. In the 3 Chapter 
Peter tells them, on the occasion of the healing 
of the lame man, * ' Repent ye therefore, and 
be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, 
when the times of refreshing shall come from the 
presence of the Lord." 

23. " And it shall come to pass, that every soul, 
which will not hear that Prophet, shall be destroyed 
from among the people." 

26. li Unto you first God, having raised up his 
Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away 
every one of you from his iniquites." 

These texts speak of actions of minds and bodies 
this side the grave, and the contexts show they are 
the fulfilling of God's promises, and Peter's statement 
of promises and fulfillments refers to no other state of 
existence but the present. 

Acts 4-12. " Neither is there salvation in any 
other: for there is none other name under heaven 
given among men, whereby we must be saved." 

Christ's name and righteousness was under the 
heavens, not above them. All God's work by Moses, 
the Prophets and Christ in the flesh, or in the spirit, 
centre on, or apply to man while in the flesh, because 
man is the representative of God, the head of this 
material world, and this headship requires that he 
must add to soul abilities the spiritual abilities of God. 
It is only by this godly spirituality that we can attain 
our own best good or help others to good, or can 
have the kingdom of God within us, or possess an 



THE GREAT END. 26 1 

"inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." 

In these chapters it is said that multitudes were add 
ed unto them, and the Lord added to the church daily 
such as should be saved ; and believers were the more 
added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and wom- 
en. The church at this time was only believers in 
their first experiences of conversion, and the only out- 
ward manifestation was baptism and breaking of 
bread. There were no vows, or promises, or oaths, or 
covenants. The Lord added to the church, and be- 
lievers were added to the Lord. This has special ref- 
erence to the mind, or spiritual, work of the Lord on 
or with the minds, or spirits, of believers, which 
makes the spiritual kingdom of which Christ is king — 
not by the presence of His body but by the presence 
of His character, as we learn from His teachings and 
commandments. Thus He is the Savior and Redeem- 
er of man's soul and spirit, and the Savior of the 
body, as much as it can be saved since the declara- 
tion, "dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return. " 

Acts 7-54. "When they heard these things, they 
were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with 
their teeth." 

Psalms 35-16. "With hypocritical mockers in 
feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth." 

Job 16-9. "He teareth me in his wrath, .who 
hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth." 

Psalms 37-12, " The wicked plotteth against the 
just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth." 

Lam. 2-16. "They hiss and gnash the teeth." 



262 THE GREAT END. 

Psalms 1 1 2- 10. "The wicked shall see it, and be 
grieved ; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: 
the desire of the wicked shall perish/' 

I believe there is no expression in the New Testa- 
ment but what can be found in the Old, although difiC 
erent words are used, as Paul uses the word love in- 
stead of the word waiteth. Christ refers to these 
texts when speaking of those cast out of His favor 
and kingdom, and the misery and distraction of the 
wicked at this Penticostal time was as perfect as was 
the salvation of the believer. The blessedness and 
misery declared and prophesied of in the Old Testa- 
ment is fulfilled and manifested in the joyful, right- 
eous state of mind and spirit of believers, and the 
misery and anguish of soul and mind is fulfilled in un- 
believers. 

The last chapter of Revelations says: " He that is 
holy let him be holy still, and he that is filthy let him 
be filthy still." Here is the end, and conclusion and 
result of God's work in perfecting man in His own 
image and character. Those who exercise the pow- 
ers of body and soul according to His will secure 
their own blessedness, and in the highest sense pro- 
mote His glory; while those who use their powers of 
body and soul contrary to His will secure to them- 
selves misery and destruction, and glorify God in that 
they were not able to resist His power if they were 
His mercies. 

At this Penticostal time was fulfilled Christ's parable 
of the sheep and the goats. It might be said that 



THE GREAT END. 363 

the whole world was gathered at Jerusalem, and all 
the holy angels, or holy characters, according to Mos- 
es and according to Jesus Christ, were before Him in 
spirit, and was not the Son of man come in His glory. 
Was there ever since the heavens and the earth were 
created such manifestation of God's goodness in the 
souls and spirits of penitent believers, and such misery 
and anguish of soul and spirits of unbelievers. Is 
not this new way sufficient to fulfill all those prophe- 
cies about new heavens and a new earth. Peter said 
it fulfilled the promised new covenant, when God 
would write a new law in their hearts. 



ERRATA. 



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stead of devious. 

On page thirteeen read liberty instead of linerty. 

On page thirty four read was instead of war. 

On pasre forty one read within instead of writteu. 

On page forty-six read Receiving instead of Renewing. 

On page fit'ty-three read record instead of reward. 

On page fifty-six read lift instead of light. 

On page sixty-nine read dead instead of head. 

On page ninty eight read adversary instead of adversity. 

On page one hundred and eighteen read inanimate instead of 
inimate. 

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